[vlc-devel] why netsync unicast?

[Ryan Nowakowski]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:03:08PM +0100, Rafaël Carré wrote:
> Le Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:39:08 -0600,
> Ryan Nowakowski <tubaman at fattuba.com> a écrit :
> 
> > Is there any reason why netsync uses udp unicast?  It seems like a
> > perfect application for multicast!  It would scale better that way.
> 
> Netsync has not been maintained for a while, and it would need a
> rewrite.
> 
> Maybe the authors didn't think about multicast when they wrote it, or
> it was just simpler to use unicast ?
> 
> I'm sure multicast would be useful for that, if you feel like doing it,
> don't hesitate ;)

Can't.  Conflict of interest since I work here: http://netstreams.com