[dvblast-devel] configuration inconsistency

[Christophe Massiot]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010, Thomas Kernen wrote:

>> Multicast su?ks IMVHO. Here we have a lot more success with TCP stream
>> delivery (packet loss, cheap switches with mcast issues etc),
>> incorporating simple http proxies in multiple locations. No problem in
>> delivering IPTV from one end of the country to another.  ;-)
>
> Then IMHO you are in the wrong target group for this application. Most  
> of those using DVBlast are running multicast on hardware that can  
> actually support it. I don't believe that DVBlast intends on solving  
> poor multicast implementation from low end devices by working around  
> using HTTP based streaming solution. It doesn't scale for the target  
> deployment sizes most of the contributors (and users) are working with.

I totally agree. Besides you can use multicast at your head-end (or even
on the local machine), and then have another process or machine
transform it to TCP/HTTP. It is often handy to have it available in
multicast somewhere.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.