On 1/18/07, Jim Juhas <james.f.juhas@snet.net> wrote:
>
> Does all of this mean that as the streaming data is delayed, then what
> you hear gets more and more delayed in real time from the source? And
> that it can never catch up, because you have to listen to the entire
> content on the receiving end????
>
> Or do you end up somewhere with a "skip" of no content so that the
> program at the receiving end doesn't get overly delayed relative to the
> source?
>
> Certainly not an issue if you're listening/watching an episode of
> "Desperate Housewives" but a huge issue if you're listening to a horse race.
Depends on what it's a stream of, the player, and so on. Most streams
of recorded things get played in their entirety. Streams intended to
be picked up in the middle, like radio broadcasts can sometimes skip
if the player becomes too badly skewed to the server. When that
happens, it's gone. You lose the 10 or 20 seconds you missed, and
miss the end of the horserace.
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David Scheidt
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