Hi, On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:49:38AM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Byte parallel? Why? The whole point of multicast is you > join a group that is relevant to what you want... If you > interlaced all of the streams (which isn't reasonable for > large numbers of streams), then you get a lot of traffic, > the majority of which gets thrown away. byte parallel is the stream at hardware level, it has nothing to do with how you transmit the stream(s). > You'd more likely want to have one channel (possibly > combining HD, ED, and SD PIDs) per multicast address. > This allows the receiver to only get the traffic that > is useful to him. well - I do not know if there is hierarchical modulation really used anywhere, but still, this is not more than demultiplexing and sending one PID per multicast address. > -Philip Regards, Wolfgang
