From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Sep 16 15:28:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [207.167.3.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02CE715776 for ; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:27:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (localhost.orthanc.ab.ca [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA58562; Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:27:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Message-Id: <199909162227.QAA58562@orthanc.ab.ca> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Dinosaur ? Unicast : Multicast ;-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:16:54 EDT." <199909162216.SAA93183@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:27:38 -0600 From: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Louis" == Louis A Mamakos writes: Louis> They don't give a whiz about multicast or unicast; they Louis> just want to click on the link and have noise come out of Louis> the speaker. Ideally, they'd like to use the stuff already Louis> on their PC, and that's Real or Media Player. Media Player hints that it can receive and play multicast streams. I haven't tried it, but if it works it shouldn't be hard to cook up a URL that launches it with the appropriate settings to receive the feed. Louis> Commercially, content providers don't care about multicast Louis> either, other than as an optimization to help reach some of Louis> their audience more cost effectively. They are more Louis> interested in getting eyeballs and ear, regardless of the Louis> delivery mechanism. It's just exactly this point which is Louis> the reason you don't see widespread commercial deployment Louis> of "mbone" applications. That's *not* what the vendors presenting papers at the latest ACM SIGCOMM[1] were saying. They've finally realized that there's no hope at all of providing commercial services based on unicast technology; there simply is not enough bandwidth out there. I fully expect to see the big content providers to start offering multicast based services by early next year. --lyndon [1] Which was shipped around the world via multicast, not Realvideo :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message