Re: [Bloat] Bufferbloat glossary

[Kenneth Porter <shiva@sewingwitch.com>]

--On Sunday, March 29, 2020 10:23 PM +0300 Jonathan Morton 
<chromatix99@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the main distinction between online gaming and teleconferencing
> is the volume of data involved.  Games demand low latency, but also
> usually aren't throwing megabytes of data across the network at a time,
> just little bundles of game state updates telling the server what actions
> the player is taking, and telling the player's computer what enemies and
> other effects the player needs to be able to see.  Teleconferencing, by
> contrast, tends to involve multiple audio and video streams going
> everywhere.

But most gamers DO use voice chat systems to coordinate their play with 
teammates. This might be built into the game or it might be a second 
program such as Mumble, Ventrilo, or TeamSpeak. Two-way headsets were 
popular with gamers long before one saw them used for office conferencing. 
And gamers care much more about latency than some office flunky who hears 
something a second or two later than transmitted. So their codecs tend to 
be a lot more network-friendly, trading off quality for low latency.

(Given the high bandwidth needs of video, I wonder if anyone's working on 
avatar-based meeting systems wherein one creates an avatar from one's photo 
(like Bitmoji) and uses pre-downloaded content (like video games) to 
construct low-bandwidth video streams?)