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

[David Barrett]

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 5:07 pm, Wes Felter wrote:
> 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. :-)

Ha, but it's such *good* hype. :)

> 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.

Agreed.  I've heard of very few systems that get the advertised savings 
out of FEC.  Wondering if Octashape is a diamond in the rough?

The bullet stuff looks nice; any idea on its current implementation 
status?  Not familiar with Chainsaw, though.  Where does it fall in the 
pantheon of p2p streaming architectures?

-david