[streaming] Re: Extending VideoLan to support Distributed Streaming

[Benjamin PRACHT]

>
> 1. Is  there any activity from  the VideoLan Community to  support the
> above described "distributed streaming" in any form?

In fact, we've had the idea  to implement something quite similar to you
first  solution, as  a  functionnality  of a  complete  manager for  the
VideoLAN  solution. However,  as  this  work has  been  begun, it  isn't
improving very fast and, AFAIK, the failover part hasn't been begun.

>
> 2.  Which would  you think  would  be the  most interesting  of the  2
> approaches mentioned above and which the most difficult to implement?

The second approach seems very hard to implement to me. I'm not aware of
any codecs being able to  produce such "improvement" streams that whould
come above  a basic  one (although  I'm aware of  teams working  on this
issue).  Moreover, I  think that  in MPEG  implementation, if  the basic
layer goes down, the stream becomes  unreadable. As a consequence, I the
first approach seems  more feasible to me (although  I'm perhaps missing
an important point, having other opinions would be great).

>
> 3. Is the  VideoLan Community insterested in such an  extension of the
> Software  and if  yes would  you be  willing to  provide us  with some
> support in our effort to implement it. For example we could definately
> use  the opinion  of someone  of  the Software's  developers on  where
> should  we make  changes to  implement the  communication between  the
> servers etc.

I think this  functionnality would really be a benefit  for VideoLAN. In
addition, I think that VideoLAN  developpers have always be very pleased
to help people to code on our software.

>
> 4. Which  video format  would you consider  more appropriate  and more
> feasible to use for the above mentioned purposes.
>

Well, I think that would depend on  the solution used and on the kind of
streaming application you are planning to support...

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