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Fully refundable free advice: Both of these sound like they would have trouble making money. On the one hand, both of them compete with existing solutions (we

Fully refundable free advice: Both of these sound like they would have trouble making money. On the one hand, both of them compete with existing solutions (webcasting and pay-per-view/direct feed). On the other hand, both of them are subject to uncontrolled bottlenecks on both sides of the pipe (licensing rights at the content creation side, a widely used platform at the client side). Maybe they're revolutionary and I just don't get it, but the descriptions of the ideas need to say not only why they're better than the existing ways of doing business, but also how they're better enough to win in the marketplace.

cdvonstinkpot 14y ago
Thanks for your reply. I disagree with some of what you say. As for competing lossless webcasting solutions, I only know of 1 called EdCast (https://code.google.com/p/edcast-reborn/ https://code.google.com/p/edcast-reborn/), which when used with IceCast, can stream lossless flac-ogg audio. A UK based station called Absolute Radio's using it & they tell me it's not stable. Aside from that I don't know of any lossless webradio broadcasting solution. As for telepresence, there's only 1 project called Scenic (http://scenic.sat.qc.ca/en/Scenic http://scenic.sat.qc.ca/en/Scenic) addressing the issue of lag for concert Telepresence. They use the Internet2 network exclusively, but say their software works on any IP network. I would guess that a standard < 1Gb network would create such lag problems that music could not sync between venues & the remote performance idea would simply not work due to delays between each component's audio/video feeds. For example, if a DJ team were to operate between nodes on a low-bandwidth network segment I imagine it would sound like a train wreck when they tried to sync to each other's records. I don't know of any commercial telepresence solution that eliminates lag to the extent that's needed to do what this project aims to do. It's all new in that regard.

cdvonstinkpot 14y ago

Thanks for your reply. I disagree with some of what you say. As for competing lossless webcasting solutions, I only know of 1 called EdCast (https://code.google.com/p/edcast-reborn/ https://code.google.com/p/edcast-reborn/), which when used with IceCast, can stream lossless flac-ogg audio. A UK based station called Absolute Radio's using it & they tell me it's not stable. Aside from that I don't know of any lossless webradio broadcasting solution. As for telepresence, there's only 1 project called Scenic (http://scenic.sat.qc.ca/en/Scenic http://scenic.sat.qc.ca/en/Scenic) addressing the issue of lag for concert Telepresence. They use the Internet2 network exclusively, but say their software works on any IP network. I would guess that a standard < 1Gb network would create such lag problems that music could not sync between venues & the remote performance idea would simply not work due to delays between each component's audio/video feeds. For example, if a DJ team were to operate between nodes on a low-bandwidth network segment I imagine it would sound like a train wreck when they tried to sync to each other's records. I don't know of any commercial telepresence solution that eliminates lag to the extent that's needed to do what this project aims to do. It's all new in that regard.