Sorry for the bad connectivity - the Web Server has actually worked through the /. effect at low load without any problems. However, it's sitting behind several firewalls, which probably interpreted the massive number of connection requests as a denial-of-service attack and throttled the pipe. Also, we are in Australia, so it all happened in the middle of the night.

As for the discussion about the choice of encapsulation format - it probably just burns down to having to make a decision at some point and our decision was strongly influenced by open source considerations at the time. We haven't actually seriously tried putting CMML into QuickTime or MPEG-4, though their hierarchical format and the necessity to pre-process files before they could be streamed via rtp/rtsp indicated potential issues with serialisation and dynamic composition on the server side. When I mention streaming, I mean live streaming over rtp/rtsp and live inserting clip tags into the stream.

silvia