Re: [maitai] Roles of Sender and Receiver

[Peter Musgrave <[e-mail]>]

On 2010-12-02, at 11:10 AM, Charles Eckel (eckelcu) wrote:

>  have 3 cameras, left, center, and right.
> I can provide these as:
> - 3 separate streams
> - 1 active speaker switched stream
> - 1 stream composed of the three

Ok, I see what you're after. 

In the case where the receiver elects to get three separate streams, then I have a refinement for my question. 

Who now decides how the streams from A map on to screens at B?

A could send streams targeted at specific screens at B (after examining B's description of it's screens)

-or-

B could send A instructions on where to send each stream (based on examining A's description of it's cameras)

-or-

We can find use-cases in which both techniques might be required. 

I am trying to decide how complete the information in a room description really needs to be. While I like the idea of a reasonably complete physical description (since it is very future proof) - I think it imposes a burden on each side which might not be warranted. The other extreme (just label cameras left, center, right) seems to obviously limited. Where is the middle ground?

Peter Musgrave