[vlc] Re: [vlc-devel] VLC and NAT

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le Jeudi 13 Octobre 2005 17:06, johnny Laura a écrit :
> Well I'm not a programmer, but I'd like to develop a little system
> for both NAT and VLC(vod enviroment) can work together without
> problems....

There is NO way to make NAT and VoD work seamlessly 100% of the time. 
NAT are simply not meant for that kind of traffic.

The only partial solution that sounds practicable to me consists of 
streaming over TCP, but it is prone to session stalling in case of 
paclet loss; TCP is very poor at recovering from packet loss with 
real-time traffic. With VLC, serving files from a web server is the 
easiest way to do that (and Google Video does just that).

Any kind of UDP streaming through without the some external 
"help" (UPnP, STUN, TURN, etc) is hardly possible, from a logical stand 
point.

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