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To: Eric L who wrote (15214)	9/20/2001 12:26:16 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 34857

Back to the basics of clips, yes. From one who has followed CSPAN over the internet packet network, realvideo, from the very start. There is the additional problem if the source of the streaming content is live, or comes from a hard disk, archived. That is, of one can insert some empty space, wait, search ahead of time,etc.. One interesting aspect is that the live service actually has gotten worse since the beginning, subjectively. Now the system tries to first feed at 100-200kbps, sooner or later some problem, delayed packets or control commands. Then it starts shifting down in speed, which causes new similar problems, and in a while it is back at the 8-12kbps that it wasn't even 3 years ago. Well, one thing has almost disappeared, the habit of going fullspeed for a while, then put on all breaks, then sound all alarms, back to full speed, buffer overflow, all breaks on,etc,etc... That is, this does not need to happen for an archived source, where the source can wait. But worse for a live source. However, broadcasting archived material to many runs into amost the same problem. But shorter clips than the amount of local buffer memory is easy. Compare Nokia-Samsung 64MB, 8000 seconds of 64kbps clips. Ilmarinen P.S. Trying to never miss a chance to push CSPAN, and point out for how long time it has been possible to watch CSPAN live over the packet internet, even in Finland. (without getting into why do not have a license even on private cable TV) Bless Brian Lamb (as one should end it)