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.
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