On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 07:03:52PM -0600, Christopher Brooks wrote: > Does the entropy streaming server work well for static files, e.g. as a > replacement for Red5? > > What I'm pondering is variable speed playback. HTML 5 has tags to > handle this, but I am (assuming) that this doesn't just request data at > double rate but actually drops every other frame. I'm wondering if the > entropy streaming servers can be coaxed into doing this in an > efficient manner.
This falls under "Video on Demand", which is slightly outside the scope I have chosen for my GSS work, but others in the GStreamer community are interested in seeing more development here. We'll see how that works out. VOD support is very rudimentary, and the server is effectively serving VOD files similar to how Apache would: as fast as the client will accept. VOD is a differently complex beast compared to live streaming: you have to handle rate-control, bursting, and time-based range requests, which means having a time/offset table for each file in a manageable format. Once you've done that, adding support variable speed serving is not especially complicated. As can be guessed from "very rudimentary", none of these features exist in GSS currently. David _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
