Reply to thread

Message

hm,

havent seen it from this point of view yet! Quite interesting! I think the arguments for timeshifting on the server are quite good! Even if timshifting on client side will be easier to realize.
Now my questions:
How can a client know where he is in the program?(Well where the server is)? Solution would be to let the server remember whe he startet timshifting, and which channel(with EPG even name of broadcasted program) !

The other, already mentioned thing is: How can we realize this on a server, and how granting that enough Bandwidth is available?!
Do we want this to be possible for every connected client(watching another position in buffer)? Because then the limit of bandwidth will be there soon(maybe even before 3rd client with std TV) and after 1st with HDTV...
Or we can find a codec, todays machines are able to encode with in realtime(multiple streams of course)...

Finally i'd love to have this, but i fear that this is not possible concerning limited bandwidth and CPU-Power ressources!

What do you think?

Regards from SouthAfrica!

Thomas

<blockquote data-quote="tom1502" data-source="post: 42390" data-attributes="member: 10437">hm,havent seen it from this point of view yet! Quite interesting! I think the arguments for timeshifting on the server are quite good! Even if timshifting on client side will be easier to realize. Now my questions: How can a client know where he is in the program?(Well where the server is)? Solution would be to let the server remember whe he startet timshifting, and which channel(with EPG even name of broadcasted program) !The other, already mentioned thing is: How can we realize this on a server, and how granting that enough Bandwidth is available?! Do we want this to be possible for every connected client(watching another position in buffer)? Because then the limit of bandwidth will be there soon(maybe even before 3rd client with std TV) and after 1st with HDTV...Or we can find a codec, todays machines are able to encode with in realtime(multiple streams of course)...Finally i'd love to have this, but i fear that this is not possible concerning limited bandwidth and CPU-Power ressources! What do you think?Regards from SouthAfrica! Thomas</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tom1502, post: 42390, member: 10437"] hm, havent seen it from this point of view yet! Quite interesting! I think the arguments for timeshifting on the server are quite good! Even if timshifting on client side will be easier to realize. Now my questions: How can a client know where he is in the program?(Well where the server is)? Solution would be to let the server remember whe he startet timshifting, and which channel(with EPG even name of broadcasted program) ! The other, already mentioned thing is: How can we realize this on a server, and how granting that enough Bandwidth is available?! Do we want this to be possible for every connected client(watching another position in buffer)? Because then the limit of bandwidth will be there soon(maybe even before 3rd client with std TV) and after 1st with HDTV... Or we can find a codec, todays machines are able to encode with in realtime(multiple streams of course)... Finally i'd love to have this, but i fear that this is not possible concerning limited bandwidth and CPU-Power ressources! What do you think? Regards from SouthAfrica! Thomas [/QUOTE]