[AG-TECH] VideoProducerService is also receiving???

[John Hofmann]

That's my understanding also.

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From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf Of Jennifer Teig von Hoffman
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 12:34 PM
To: Michael Miller
Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] VideoProducerService is also receiving???

I'm not a vic expert, but my understanding is that muting the streams
only prevents the receiving computer from taking the time to draw the
images, and that it doesn't have any impact on the data traffic to the
machine.

- Jennifer

Michael Miller wrote:

> I've seen this question a couple times.  Yes, this is normal behavior
in 
> my experience.  You should notice though that all the streams in the 
> VideoProducer VICs muted.  I believe this eliminates the bandwith
usage 
> that those streams would need, but there still maybe a small amount in

> order for VIC to know that the stream is still there.  I'll let the
vic 
> experts chime in here...