[streaming] Re: Reliable multicast

[Rob Hudson]

Using forward error correction. And congestion control and session 
information...

This is the library I'm trying to implement:

http://www.inrialpes.fr/planete/people/roca/mcl/mcl.html



Mark Moriarty wrote:

>Just curious -- what do you mean by reliable multicast?  UDP multicast is
>inherently a one-way, non-acked mechanism.  Do you mean to add forward error
>correction wrappers, or something similar? 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: streaming-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:streaming-bounce at videolan.org]
>On Behalf Of Rob Hudson
>Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:19 PM
>To: streaming at videolan.org
>Subject: [streaming] Reliable multicast
>
>Hello,
>I'm not sure if this is the best list to be mailing to but I need to start
>somewhere! For a university project I'm trying to implement a reliable
>multicast library for videolan, specifically vlc. However, the developer
>docs for vlc, especially streaming, are a bit sparse. I've been told that I
>can make a module and put it in access_out, along with udp.c etc. Will this
>work? Or do I need to do some other things? I'm concentrating on making the
>server before I attempt the receiver which will be more difficult.
>Any responses much appreciated!
>Rob
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