Re: streaming protocol, satellite links

Hi Sean

After rereading you option number 3, I see that you were probably trying to
say what I'm saying :)

you want the client (our server.pl) to understand the udp protocol, instead
of it acting at a port forward.

Cheers
    Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike O'Connor" <mike-g7Ky/[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [slimp3-dev] streaming protocol, satellite links


> Hi Sean
>
> So what your saying is that you can not buffer the sound at the server ?
> This would make it so you did not have to change anything on the slimp3
side
> of the system
>
>
> Mike
>
> > Use a new protocol (best, I think)
> >
> > I think the best protocol is one where the client acknowledges every
> > packet individually, and it's the server's responsibility to keep track
of
> > the client's buffer usage, which packets need to be retransmitted,
> > timeouts, etc.  This would simplify the client side quite a bit, at the
> > expense of having to implement a fairly complex TCP-like protocol on the
> > server side. Ultimately this looks like the best solution because it
gives
> > full control of the protocol to the application. We'll have to deal with
> > the same issues as other UDP streaming protocols - in particular,
> > detecting link capacity, being fair to TCP connections sharing the same
> > path, and refusing to stream or reducing the data rate (reencoding the
> > MPEG!!) if we're causing too much packet loss.
> >
> >
> > Sean
> >
> >
> >
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