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If life ever returns to normal, one thing no one will miss from the lockdown era is the 'TV goldfish'. For over a year, we've watched the disembodied, pixelated faces of contributors to live TV mouth their words out of sync with their audio, gulping away as if in a private fish tank. This isn't the exception for internet video, it's the norm.
John Day is one of the internet's greybeard founding fathers. For a decade he has been advancing a set of improvements to the current mainstream internet protocols. His proposals – called RINA (Recursive Internetwork Architecture) – revisit and build on Louis Pouzin's founding concept of datagrams (data packets). Simplifying these features allowed the original inter-networking protocols (IP) to get out of the door in the 1980s and 1990s, and allowed for the rapid growth of the internet. But the current system we have – TCP/IP – is holding back new innovation.
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(Score: 2) by istartedi on Friday June 11 2021, @04:09PM
Also, making audio redundant is cheap. If the channels are bonded, redundancy is too expensive. I think the difference in bandwidth is such that you could do a simple tripling of the audio packets, use a "voting" system to throw out loss and not consume too much bandwidth. I think the more sophisticated approach is to prioritize a low sampling rate for redundancy. I think cel phone providers to this, which is why you sometimes hear people transition to an echoey "robot voice" for a few seconds.
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