[spook-l] Progressive JPEG.

[Jeff Bowden]

Nathan Lutchansky wrote:

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>On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Jeff Bowden wrote:
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>>>Any neat features you like from camserv that should be in Spook?  -Nathan
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>>The main neat feature is camserv-relay which supports the scenario where 
>>the camera is on a relatively low-bandwidth connection but the web page 
>>serving the image is on a high-bandwidth server.  It only pulls from the 
>>camera when someone is watching and it fans out from the high-bandwidth 
>>server so the machine with the camera only has to supply one connection 
>>worth of bandwidth to support as many users as the high-bandwidth server 
>>can dish out.
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>Yeah, relaying is probably the last big thing I need to add before
>releasing Spook 1.0.  (OK, the last big thing that I haven't implemented 
>yet in my private tree, anyway.)  This is actually somewhat complicated 
>because it requires an RTSP client implementation to set up the 
>Spook-to-Spook media session and an RTP client implementation to receive 
>the media from the sender.
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>I can probably shortcut this a bit by implementing only the RTSP client 
>part and using Darwin Streaming Server as the relay server.  Does anybody 
>have any opinions for or against DSS?  Would relaying through DSS be 
>usable and useful, or is DSS more trouble than it's worth?  -Nathan
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I have no experience with DSS.   I see that apple requires registration 
to download the source.  Is it redistributable?  Is it difficult to 
build and configure?