For this week, I looked further into the capabilities of the folder object in jitter trying to figure out exactly how I could implement it to automatically stream media emailed or sent by mms to a particular email address. I ran into a couple of problems. The first explained why the jit.broadcast object did not work last week, apparently because I am wireless the rtsp address that jitter produces is not an actual IP address. I have to go to NYU technical services in order to fix this, which is obviously a little bit of a pain. The other problem is that in order to read in files from a folder on my server, I have to mount my server on my computer so that the files have a local path. The problem with this is that the files have to download and it is extremely slow. In doing tests on Luke's computer, it seemed that the slowness was not a huge factor if a video file was already loaded and playing. But it was significantly slow when a video would be uploaded and have to play immediately.

Here is the patch that I used in testing. The folder object is reading in a file from Luke's server so it would obviously be different when used for a folder on my server.

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