Resilient streaming protocols

Matthew Reath matt at mattreath.com
Sat Jun 11 18:45:47 UTC 2011


>
> There is a RTP FEC extension...
>
> Pete
>
> On May 29, 2011, at 12:40 AM, Aria Stewart wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any interest in a forward-error-corrected streaming protocol
>> suitable for multicast, possibly both audio and video?
>>
>> Good for when there's some packet loss.
>>
>> ----
>> Aria Stewart
>>
>>

I believe Cisco had/has a solution called VQE:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/video/ps7191/ps7127/product_data_sheet0900aecd806c0bfb.html.

It works by having a free software (LGPL or GPL) VQE client on the STB or
PC device that queues and requests missing packets.

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