<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Usually our low bandwidth users are simultaneously confined to using unicast. Making sure the bridge doesn't send streams (unless requested) will be critical when using unicast.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Joe</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 2, 2007, at 10:46 AM, bdr wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">I think this is motivation to enhance the AG streams to use SSM - then you could select which source multicast streams you want to receive, which would permit those on low bandwidth connections to choose how to spend their bandwidth.<BR><BR>George Estes wrote:<BLOCKQUOTE cite="mid5.1.0.14.2.20070202083029.02db72e0@pop.ncsa.uiuc.edu" type="cite"><PRE wrap=""> Being able to select which video streams to receive would definitely be helpful in our project to deploy PIGs to K-12 schools. Many of these schools are bandwidth challenged. We have been looking at ways to minimize bandwidth usage where needed and this would be excellent.
George
At 06:23 PM 2/1/2007 -0600, Piers O'Hanlon wrote:
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On 01/02/07, Joseph Stone <A class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:stone004@umn.edu"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Osaka-Mono; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; white-space: pre; "><stone004@umn.edu></SPAN></A> wrote:
</PRE><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE wrap="">We've identified a need to have slow downlink participants be able to send
their video but not receive video. The idea here being that high downlink
bandwidth participants will be able to see everyone who is participating.
It's not enough to just not display the video for slow downers, the bridge
needs to be told not to even send the stream at all. It's enough for them
to be seen and for them to have two way audio (highly compressed - i.e.
GSM).
Is there a current version of vic that will fill the need?
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