[vorbis-dev] UDP streaming vorbis

[Stan Seibert]

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 12:05, eross+vorbis-dev at disc.ucn.cl wrote:
> I'm trying to implement a vorbis client/server for doing streaming over 
> udp. Currently, using the examples in the vorbis source code I managed to 
> make it work. (BTW, im using multicast, and it works fine). The problem is 
> that the clients must connect from the begining of the stream, or they 
> will not recieve the first packets and complain about the stream not being 
> ogg/vorbis.
> 
> In some post, someone told that he was re-transmitting these packets every 
> N seconds.
> 
> Is there some alternative to this ? I'd like to make a client that can 
> connect in any time to the server.

Another idea that has been mentioned is transmitting the three header
packets via a reliable TCP channel separate from the UDP channel.  It's
added complexity, but one possible solution.  (Such a channel might also
be handy if you want information to come back from the clients.)


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Stan Seibert

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