From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sendfile
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 11:02:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E19BWQu-00063L-00@calista.inka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.40L0.0305020124050.1874-100000@ketil.hb.local>
In article <Pine.LNX.4.40L0.0305020124050.1874-100000@ketil.hb.local> you wrote:
> I don't think TCP is suitable for streaming multimedia stuff to clients.
> For instance, if a packet does not arrive on the client, it's better to
> handle this in the client and skip a frame or show one of worse quality
> than to have the video stop while waiting for the server to resend.
Yes, this is a problem, but on the other hand, if you want to stream to a
large number of clients, you need to consider deployment and firewalling
issues.
Nearly all streaming applications out there nowaday offer at least a TCP (or
HTTP) fallback, or use only TCP.
Greetings
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-02 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-30 14:28 sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-04-30 16:51 ` sendfile bert hubert
2003-04-30 19:12 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-04-30 19:28 ` sendfile bert hubert
2003-04-30 21:57 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-04-30 22:18 ` sendfile Mark Mielke
2003-04-30 22:34 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-05-01 4:28 ` sendfile Mark Mielke
2003-05-01 15:25 ` sendfile Joseph Malicki
2003-05-01 21:17 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-05-01 22:31 ` sendfile Chris Friesen
2003-05-01 23:32 ` sendfile Ketil Froyn
2003-05-02 9:02 ` Bernd Eckenfels [this message]
2003-05-02 2:41 ` sendfile Mark Mielke
2003-05-02 4:19 ` sendfile Chris Friesen
2003-05-02 21:06 ` sendfile Mark Mielke
2003-05-03 0:42 ` sendfile Miquel van Smoorenburg
2003-05-03 15:04 ` sendfile Mark Mielke
2003-05-03 12:52 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-05-03 21:01 ` sendfile Pål Halvorsen
2003-05-04 0:53 ` sendfile Miquel van Smoorenburg
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2001-05-24 8:44 sendfile Pål Halvorsen
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