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diff --git a/doc/sydra.8.txt b/doc/sydra.8.txt index 532f6de..3dc037c 100644 --- a/doc/sydra.8.txt +++ b/doc/sydra.8.txt @@ -57,7 +57,19 @@ Video/Audio streams from external locations. *sydra* has been written to be used for the Elevate Festival in Graz Austria in order to involve external locations to present themselves at the festival. -*Sydra* is based on GStreamer and is written in C. +This manpage describes *sydra* the basic utility for the task which is +based on GStreamer and is written in C. +The *sydra* utility creates a gstreamer pipeline to send or receive +RTP-based Audio/Video streams. For a bidirectional connection 2 instances +of *sydra* are required on both sides of the communication. *sydra* has +automatic client detection capabilities in the form of keep alive messages. +These message are sent out by receivers to request RTP packets from a sender. +The sender will send RTP packets to one or more receivers which request +the stream. It also uses the keep alive messages to remove stale client +'connections'. A receiver can also request to be removed from the list of +receivers. This ensures a fast and clean shutdown. +The keepalive messages are also a simple way to work around NAT and +firewalls (UDP hole punching). OPTIONS ------- |