[streaming] Re: [vlc] VLC over SCTP

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le Mardi 24 Janvier 2006 15:47, vous avez écrit :
> Rémi, thanks for your quick answer. Basically, roaming into
> heterogeneous network is my project issue. I need a protocol
> architecture capable to do a handover (on the fly) without any
> (litle) pakages loss and garantee CoS and QoS of video, data and
> voice. VLC has all this subjects, but it doesn't manage more than one
> connection with 2 or more IP numbers.

> I've made some SCTP implementations, it looks preatty hard to do the
> all thing to me because I'm a novice in this protocol, but anyway, I
> can give it a try. In the other hand I have to congratulate you and
> your team, VLC seems to work well. In Linux/Debian(woody) i'd some
> problems with the video, most probably my foult, but it worked well
> too.
>
> I don't know if you did understand me why the SCTP matter...

As far as I understand you want to support fast hand-over.

My main concern is that I know no standard protocol for transmission of 
multimedia streams over SCTP, and I'd rather not invent a dummy 
non-standard non-reusable protocol. Is SCTP negotiable via SDP ? Can 
one do RTP over SCTP ? etc.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.simphalempin.com/home/
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