[Live-devel] About setting a multicast On Demand server

[John M. Zwiebel]

On Jul 13, 2004, at 9:04 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:

>
>> I want to change testOnDemand to play media on demand by using 
>> multicast in stead of using unicast.
>
> I'm not sure that this is something that makes much sense.
>
> "On demand" means that a new stream will be created in response to 
> each new client.  Why would you want each new stream to be multicast?
>

For your consideration:

There is a protocol called MSNIP which is used as a reverse IGMP
that allows a first-hop router to signal a given source that (S,G)
state has been created so the source should start sending.

It hasn't been deployed.

2cents