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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by a-dub on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:25PM (#25993359)
was "network 2000" multicast? how similar/different was it to xing streamworks (commercial multicast mpeg suite from that time)?
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Re:VideoLAN is 20 years old today by jbk on Monday February 01, 2021 @03:41PM (#25993589)
It was an ATM backbone, but the routers did not support mcast. So they cheated to do multicast on a non-multicast network.
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