Hey, On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 00:36, Jakob Heitz (jheitz) via NANOG <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey, there's a better way. > Split the movie into segments: > Segment 1: Minute 1. > Segment 2: Minute 2. > Segment 3: Minutes 3,4. > Segment 4: Minutes 5-8. > Segment 5: Minutes 9-16. > etc. > Then send each segment in a loop. > Each receiver receives every loop simultaneously. > Each segment may start receiving part way through, but then it starts again. > By the time a segment needs to play, it is completely received. > A 128 minute movie needs 8 streams. > While waiting for the first minute, you can play ads :) > The shorter segments don't need to be sent for long: > Receivers can stop receiving the short segments once they have received one > loop of it. > When no receiver is receiving a loop, you can stop sending it. Cute :). Well 8*bitrates, but nice optimisation to make stream count finite. Of course at cost of quality, as receiver needs up-speed of 8x at start. Interesting side-effect, quality increases as movie progresses :) -- ++ytti
