In article <Pine.LNX.4.40L0.0305020124050.1874-100000@ketil.hb.local> you wrote:
> I don't think TCP is suitable for streaming multimedia stuff to clients.
> For instance, if a packet does not arrive on the client, it's better to
> handle this in the client and skip a frame or show one of worse quality
> than to have the video stop while waiting for the server to resend.
Yes, this is a problem, but on the other hand, if you want to stream to a
large number of clients, you need to consider deployment and firewalling
issues.
Nearly all streaming applications out there nowaday offer at least a TCP (or
HTTP) fallback, or use only TCP.
Greetings
Bernd
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