A protocol for lossy transmission of digital video

The transmission of digital video requires a large amount of bandwith. Such bandwidths are typically not available on typical computer networks. Apart from bandwidth, variable network latency has a considerable effect on video transmission. However, the human vision system is fairly tolerant to relatively poor quality moving images. It is argued that there are practical applications that can benefit from the ability to transmit low quality video images over general purpose computer networks. The generally improving network bandwidths and increasingly powerful digital video compression techniques make the whole problem practical. A protocol is proposed that can adapt to the available bandwidth and can tolerate some loss of data during transmission.