[Spread-users] Spread Newbie: Video and audio possible with spread?
Ned Konz
ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Jan 7 13:55:34 EST 2004
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 9:04 am, Chatter Box wrote:
> Having been recently introduced to spread, I am wondering if anyone can
> help with the ff questions:
>
> 1). Is it possible to use spread to stream video and audio ?
> - If the answer to video streaming is yes, could someone please explain
> how this can be done or point me to a URL for more info ? (an example will
> be nicer still! ;o) )
Sure, why not? Spread can provide guaranteed, ordered delivery of messages to
clients. What those messages contain is up to you.
Since I can do (for instance)
cat someFile.mpg | mplayer -
and play a movie through a pipe, I could do it with Spread.
The quick test for this would be to make a program that does nothing but join
a group and stream all message content to its standard output. Then you could
test it:
myProgram GROUPNAME | mplayer -
You may have to use some mplayer options to set the buffering size.
> 2). I reckon the 100k data payload size may be a problem?, what about just
> "hacking" the #define in the approp. header file (I think I remember
> reading somewhere that its not safe to do so).
I'd try just sending sub-100K chunks of a stream and see how it behaved.
I don't believe that Spread has any knobs to turn for guaranteeing quality of
service/latency, so you may either have to use lots of buffering or rely on
having a much faster network than your bitrate.
--
Ned Konz
http://bike-nomad.com
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