From: "Glenn Meadows" 

What's the latency of doing the encode cycle, transmit, decode for viewing?

Teleconferencing is not like encoding your video to store  If you're just
talking playback of a pre-compressed signal, yea, small bandwidth.  Throw
an encoder in path, and you very quickly lose "real-time"
conversation ability. Even a 1 -2 second delay makes conversations very
frustrating.  Remember when they initially bounced phone calls off of
satellites? Yea, we can get the data there really quick, but preparing it
to transmit takes the time.

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Glenn M.
"Geo."  wrote in message news:46327795{at}w3.nls.net...
>I don't see why, I can stream highdef xvid files to my video server without
>sucking up all the bandwidth. It just needs xvid or divx compression done
>in the hardware. In a world where a TV is expected to decrypt a full
>highdef HDMI stream I don't see why this can't easily be done with a camera
>(hardware encoding is the hard part) and just media player classic on the
>other end.
>
> I mean it's not like the requirements of a network DVD player are less
> than this.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
> news:46322b21{at}w3.nls.net...
>>I think most that offer good video speed, and the ability to put them on a
>>large monitor, take a large amount of bandwidth to do well, especially so
>>they don't become out of sync, and freeze.  Especially if you want this in
>>REAL time!!!
>
>

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