[Live-devel] Handle frame dropping elegantly on clients with limited output bandwidth

[Ross Finlayson]

>The problem is that if two clients, one of which is over UDP while 
>the other is over TCP and has only limited bandwidth, the 
>transmitting rate of the UDP client seems to be influenced by the 
>slow TCP client, right?

No, because the server's writes to the TCP socket will be non-blocking.

The underlying OS (in its implementation of TCP) will accept the data 
immediately, but, if necessary, buffer the outgoing data until it can 
be sent.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/