Storm wrote:
Anyway muticast is a GREAT addition if you need to stream high quality
video inside the same corporate network (ip tv for example).
So, yes... it's a great feature.
Ey, that'd be a wonderful first step wouldn't it? You would be able
to have some rich-media apps in your corporate intranet without
overloading the net traffic (talk about multi-videoconferencing
between HQs in different cities through corporate network!)
Sure... it would be awesome!
Anyway i think it's ok for 1way stream, real time
collaboration/conferencing won't be easy to implement with multicast.
(you would need to send from the server in multicast and send from the
clients in unicast (which is quite obvious i think)
But i think that in order to achieve this goal we need also to develop
UDP transport instead of TCP... and this is most likely not possible
with current AMF packet structure and (more important) using actual
flash player codecs.
Here's where i get lost, i'm not such a network expert, i'm more
software engeniering oriented hehe, but still thinking and perhaps
this is plain silly but...¿isn't there a way to encapsulate our dear
rmpt into something bigger and multicast-able?
Discuss ;)
problem is that i'm not an expert too :)
I think that if no one did this up to now (Adobe in primis) it means
that it's no easy stuff.
AMF needs every packet to be sent in order to decode a proper flv (as
far as i know) so it's not suitable for UDP, since packets can be lost
and you have no guarantee about the "order" they come with.
I may be writing a lot of stupid things so i need someone "who knows" to
correct me :)
Dario De Agostini
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