[p2p-hackers] Live P2P Video State of the Art

[Wes Felter]

On Nov 2, 2005, at 6:32 PM, David Barrett wrote:

> Another paper that gives a nice overview:
>
>     http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/trev/trev_303-octoshape.pdf
>
> Took a look at the Octoshape stuff; any idea on how it works?   
> Erasure coding?

If marketing hype can be considered a good overview. :-) The mention  
of "any 4 of 12" is an obvious indicator of FEC/erasure coding. I  
have to wonder if FEC really adds any improvement over Bullet' or  
Chainsaw.

Wes Felter - wesley at felter.org - http://felter.org/wesley/