Re: [Openpvr-devel] Switching Protocol

[Billy B. <ve...@du...>]

Brian J. Murrell (caf...@in...):

> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:37:40PM -0500, Steve Headley wrote:
> > has anyone thought about incorporating SIP protocol in the PVR? That
> > way we can issue signaling message from across the INTERNET. It make
> > for a more innovative approach.
> 
> I have heard of the acronym (SIP) in the context of digital media but
> I have not read much more than that.  Can you point me to a good
> (better than RFC, that I could probably find quite easily) description
> or give a brief description of what SIP is?

  http://www.cs.columbia.edu/sip/  is the main reference.

  To note, I wrote one of the first open source SIP implementations, my
stack is over here: http://div8.net/dissipate/   I was also a co-author
of an I-D on SIP for remote device control.  I could also probably write
a SIP client for a PVR in not too much time. :)

  The question is really would it be useful.  SIP is intended for
signalling of media sessions, so you might want to use it for doing the
equivalent of 'videolan', or you could use it as a remote device control
protocol, but I'm not sure if that's really needed or interesting.

  It's also emerging as a popular choice for a standard IM protocol.

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Billy Biggs
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