[Live-devel] Live555 MPEG2 Transport Stream packet loss

[Ross Finlayson]

>and while the same configurations worked flawlessly in a LAN 
>environment, sniffing the RTP stream delivered over a WAN (over ATM 
>+ NAT router) with ethereal discovered a lot of lost packets (and as 
>a result - degradation in picture quality, artefacts and smearing 
>where motion occurred).
>We've tried different files with various bitrates, so I am pretty 
>much sure bandwidth is not the issue.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that bandwidth *is* the issue.  If you have 
no packet loss when streaming over a LAN, but get packet loss when 
streaming over a WAN, then the problem is almost certainly that your 
stream is too high-bandwidth for your WAN (and/or perhaps its 
routers).

I.e., you have a network problem, not a problem with our software.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/