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From: Mechiel Lukkien <mechiel@ueber.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] streams
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:41:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110221204148.GA8710@knaagkever.berteun.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36690C89-48E9-4DA3-8C47-426756A2F819@gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 07:53:30PM +0100, Nemo wrote:
> i reply myself; i think they use sst to mix multimedia streams, and
> in that case a lost packet in one stream (say text) would
> delay other streams (say audio) that do not need to be delayed if
> you use sst.
>
> But otherwise I still think that muxing a tcp stream might provide
> something similar (without some of sst ffeatures, i admit) and a lot
> easier to implement. I'll write a toy to see if this is wrong.

fwiw, just put this code i had in my homedir online:

	http://www.ueber.net/code/r/fdmux

the readme has info & warnings, appl/lib/fdmux.b starts with a description
of the protocol.

yes, sst can (and does seem to) improve on many levels.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-21 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-20  1:35 Charles Forsyth
2011-02-20 16:55 ` Nemo
2011-02-20 21:37   ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-20 21:59   ` Russ Cox
     [not found]     ` <96B1444A-B40A-4F42-A387-1129C87D1387@gmail.com>
2011-02-20 23:25       ` Nemo
2011-02-21 18:53         ` Nemo
2011-02-21 20:41           ` Mechiel Lukkien [this message]
2011-02-22 10:15           ` roger peppe
2011-02-22 13:25             ` erik quanstrom
2011-02-22 13:44               ` roger peppe
2011-02-21  0:01 ` Bakul Shah

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