Re: reduce delay time for live streaming content

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From: Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] (neil_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 19:02:38 GMT

I am now advising people to ignore netmeeting and go for Portrait.

After a couple of years posting and watching the same problems again
and again in netmeeting, I consider Portrait now mature enough to be a
viable alternative. It only uses 3 static ports and is a hell of a lot
easier to get through firewalls - and can also use web proxies to
handle the video, MSN messenger calls and SIP call initiation are also
available.

If you don't need the T120 (data) features like whiteboard, file
sharing and so on, it provides good quality video and audio even down
to low bitrates, and can be used on Pocket OC - I'm trialling the new
version 2.21 now.

You can grab Portrait for PC and pocket PC from microsoft research ;
http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/

Cheers - Neil.

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:09:55 -0500, "Tim Carter [MVP/Digital Media]"
<tim-mvp@frontierdigital.com> wrote:

>Any 'streaming media' solution will introduce some level of delay. A
>minimum in the range of 3-5 seconds is typical.
>
>If you need 'real-time' video you should investigate a video
>conferencing solution, such as NetMeeting. These systems use
>technologies that are tuned for near real-time communications.
>
>T.
>
>Mark Daring wrote:
>
>> I have set the encoder and media player activex control buffer to 3 sec, but
>> I still have a delay of up to 10 sec over a 100MB line. What else can be
>> done to reduce delay time? Has someone reached better values?
>> If not what are better ways to stream video and audio with reasonable time
>> shifts, so that online communication is possible.
>
>--
>Tim Carter / StreamingMeeMee
>Frontier Digital
>PH: 508.982.4800
>AIM: streamingmeemee MSN: streamingmeemee@hotmail.com
>Microsoft Digital Media MVP 2002-2004

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