On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2011 08:45 AM, Venkatraman S wrote: > > > > Can someone explain how video streaming works - i am mainly interested in > > how the server works when you click along the timeline of the video. Does > > the server span threads/processes to fetch the frame from a specified > moment > > - how is the load sharing(/scalability) achieved! Do these need custom-OS > > for efficient file traversals? > > What? > > What do you want to know? > > None of your assumptions are correct. > I never assumed anything above - i asked honest questions as i wanted to know more about this space . > At any rate read the relevant RFCs. But you don't seem to be > interested in the low level > protocol semantics. > And in this case you are not assuming :) When i talk about file-traversals or custom-OS, i think i was talking about UML diagrams and not btree or some other file structure (!!). > Actually video streaming is fairly straight forward if you consider > only the higher level protocol. > Would like to know the network level details as much as possible; more than network level, i am interested in how the webserver acts with the mpeg file that resides on the server. > Of course there is more than what meets the eye but this should do for > the moment. > I got the drift, but no concrete course. But you gave me some keywords which i can try searching. But, having done my homework, my above question remains still unanswered. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
