Yeah, there is. We've played with it before during a tournament - using multicast between our HLTV proxy and DSL users connected to our upstream, the bandwidth saved was barely noticeable.
Like I said before I can only really see this working with an enormous viewer base - and even then you could try something like anycast if HLTV was modified so that it just streamed out the video rather than allowing chat and so on too. Anycast is a slightly more possible solution, and it is already used here in New Zealand for a few applications. -Scott > IIRC there is some multicast support in hltv? > > On 7/18/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Multicast also only works if everyone behind the enabled segment wants > the same data, and with every player on the server (using bugger all > bandwidth anyway) having a different location on the map, seeing different > users etc, I can't see it working at all. Unless you make the server send > the same data to everyone, which is just increasing bandwidth usage rather > than decreasing it. > > > > Maybe for HLTV - if there was an ENORMOUS viewer base, otherwise there's > no point. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
