Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:27:38 -0600 From: lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Dinosaur ? Unicast : Multicast ;-) Message-ID: <199909162227.QAA58562@orthanc.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:16:54 EDT." <199909162216.SAA93183@whizzo.transsys.com>
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>>>>> "Louis" == Louis A Mamakos <louie@TransSys.COM> 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 :-)
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