All things related to multicast

["Marshall Eubanks" <>]

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:14:21 -0500
 Tim Ward 
<>
 wrote:
> 
> Quoting Marshall Eubanks 
> ():
> > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:46:30 -0500
> >  Tim Ward 
> > <>
> >  wrote:
> 
> > Cool. Can they get our content that way ?
> 
> Nope.  Although IPTV had this concept of local and remote content, where
> it displayed standard SDR information.  So there could be a place to
> go for that kind of thing.  Problem is we need to keep the client small,
> so adding a bunch of codecs to it might not work really well.  
> (Sorry for the thinking out loud on this...)

Which codec do you use ? We are trying to standardize on MPEG-1 and 4.

> 
> > I do not really see how this helps to _announce_ content, however.
> 
> >From the user perspective it's a URL.  Very easy to edumacate the users.
> Go here, click, watch.
> 
> > A few technical questions come to mind :
> > 
> > Are you using a Java media library, like JMF ? Which one ? How is the
> > performance - is it optimized ? Is the code open source?
> 
> No.  The only part of the code that is java is the smart starter, which
> determines what platform you are on so the correct platform specific 
> binary can be downloaded to your machine.
> 
> > I haven't booted into OS9 in months, but tomorrow I will try it out.
> 
> Relize that we don't have any world watchable content on here *yet*.  
> The URL is for the front page of our virtual set-top-box entertainment
> TV project for our student dorm rooms.  
> 
> We're thinking of moving the CSPAN feeds off of their existing 
> hardware into this solution, but that is a couple of months away.  
> Target is to be able to do some of that late fall or early winter.
> 
> What I was addressing is the peculiarities of client operation.  You
> need x from this company and y from that company and z from here and
> then maybe it will work this time.  But next time the client changes....
> 
> It's just too much for the average users to do.  
> 

RTP standard MPEG comes close to making this uniform.

> We're working on the technical overview document of the system.  Be
> happy to circulate it to those of you who are interested.
> 

I for one would be interested.

> Tim
> 
Thanks
Marshall