[Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Geza Kovacs <gkovacs at mit.edu> wrote:
>> the local Icecast streaming server over HTTP. Surely you must agree that
>> that is possible?
> 
> And very *quickly* saturate the available bandwidth :-/

Agreed... which is why the correct solution is to use link-layer
broadcast/multicast.  That way, the bandwidth usage is independent of the
number of users, and only a single stream must be transmitted.  Farsight2
already supports link-layer multicast UDP.  I don't think Icecast does.

- --Ben
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