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Re: [httpstreaming] Current Status and Our Goal

"Ali C. Begen (abegen)" <abegen@cisco.com> Sat, 09 October 2010 16:45 UTC

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From: "Ali C. Begen (abegen)" <abegen@cisco.com>
To: Qin Wu <sunseawq@huawei.com>, Roni Even <Even.roni@huawei.com>, "David A. Bryan" <dbryan@ethernot.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Qin Wu [mailto:sunseawq@huawei.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 4:16 PM
> To: Ali C. Begen (abegen); Roni Even; David A. Bryan
> Cc: httpstreaming@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [httpstreaming] Current Status and Our Goal
> 
> > also a need for video synchronization to start rendering.
> 
> Synchronization among the viewers you mean? That could be a concern but seriously, since client implementations will
> differ, network capacities will differ, i.e., pretty much everything will differ for different clients, I don't think there is a
> solution to this. Better said, I don't think there is a problem.
> 
> [Qin] I think Synchronization between the server and the client is one issue we may look at. Since the server has buffer for
> encoding, the client has a buffer for playout, we definitely need one streaming media synchronization mechanism which may
> help reduce delay.

Sorry, I don’t get this. Server or someone else advertises what is available to the client and client fetches whatever it wants (and is available). Why is there a need for synchronization here?

-acbegen

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