[PD] Pd book sprint in NYC/Berlin

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 12:51 AM, ydegoyon at gmail.com wrote:

> ola,
>> For example, should we use GISS? Ekiga? Skype?
>>
> the main difference between a video streaming solution
> and a video conference solution ( ekiga, skype )
> is that anybody is able to see what's happening,
> e.g. that's it's public
> ( no need to authentify and join a conference room )..
> so it depends on what you want..


I think the other key difference is that ekiga/skype are tuned for low  
latency while streaming is usually tuned to have a big buffer so that  
the stream doesn't get interrupted.

Any idea on the latency of GISS?  When I was using Darwin Streaming  
Server, it usually had a buffer of 10 seconds, which makes live  
interaction impossible.  I suppose we could have one computer  
streaming and the other doing video conferencing.

.hc


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