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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:13:17 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: liveCaster: estimated audience stats... 
Message-ID:  <199909200613.XAA41664@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:12:54 %2B0930." <XFMail.990920111254.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> 

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> On 17-Sep-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> >  Am I correct in assuming that since its multicast, getting stats on number
> >  of listeners is impossible? *raised eyebrow*
> 
> Yup.
> Probably why it hasn't taken off.. "Hmm.. well its cheaper on bandwidth, but
> none of our advertisers like it because they don't know how many people their
> stuff is getting too"
> 

Getting the number of listerners is possible for instance vic and vat can do it;however,
some organzitions may have chosen to disable such feature of rtp due to its 
scalabity problems. If anyone is interested in the topic aside from the code
found in vic or vat see:

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/rtp/

	Amancio



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 Amancio Hasty
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