Re: [Mops] So, what is streaming media, anyway? :-)

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:58 AM Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com>
wrote:

> IMHO, the MOPS charter is already too broad/fuzzy.

I agree with this, although I am not sure whether that means we should
exclude 3) below.

> We should restrict it to covering two use cases only:
>         1/ On-demand streaming of pre-recorded media (e.g., watching
> movies at home), and
>         2/ Streaming/viewing (one way) of live events - e.g., football
> matches, presidential announcements
>
> In contrast, I see
>         3/ face-to-face video chat (or telephony), video conferencing, and
> cloud gaming
> as being out of scope.
>

1) and 2) are non-interactive and 3) is interactive. They can be all
considered under the umbrella of media ops if need be. But then most of the
folks in this WG are concerned about the bw consumption from 1) and 2), not
that much from 3). So, I suppose most of our energy will be spent on the
first two.

Re. latency: While it is an issue for 1/ (playback startup time) and 2/
> (startup time, lag from ‘real time’), latency requirements are not nearly
> as stringent as they would be for 3/
>

Latency and startup delay are different and independent from each other.
Latency only applies to live (from capture to playback) as well as gaming.
Startup delay (or time to first frame) applies to all streaming apps.

> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
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