2008/3/8 Tomasz Grobelny <tomasz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > The next step would be to use it in VLC stream_out module to make for example > sound more important (and thus more likely to arrive to destination > endpoint). I played a bit with VLC code and it seems it would be possible > (some MPEG Transport Stream packet reordering will be necessary). > Prioritizing sound over video should be especially useful in video > conferencing but for now I'm not going to implement it. That's simply because > I'm afraid that testing conditions could be highly variable and difficult to > reproduce. Let's stick to something predictable for now. > That is exactly what my research is about. Read some of my papers... > The deadline is not that easy to determine due to client side buffering. At > least that would require cooperation on receiving side. For now I just assume > that some packets are simply more important than others. That is they convey > more information to the one who is watching. When streaming football match > you are probably less interested in voice comments, music and applause and > more about "where is the ball?" (video more important). But when watching the > news usually audio is much more important than the object on video that > you've already seen thousands of times. You can track the rtt and also mark the expiry time and do the maths. Again check my papers... -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dccp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
