[AG-TECH] Question about Codec

Robert Olson olson at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Aug 6 10:57:01 CDT 2003


At 04:46 PM 8/6/2003 +0100, Osland, CD (Chris) wrote:
>AFAIK, there is no way to select which video streams should go
>to any site if they are multicast, thereby saving inbound bandwidth.
>
>The requirement as I see it is for a given site to say that it is
>not interested in receiving particular streams (rather than the
>opposite which would be for a site to be able to restrict the
>sites it is sending to).

This is possible with single-source multicast and IGMPv3 on the hosts.

Unfortunately there are technical/network config challenges involved with 
wide use of this.

--bob 




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