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Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Execution of a collaboration application or a distributed game involves many individual multimedia applications that concurrently generate and consume audio and video streams. As the resource requirements of individual streams change and as streams/applications are started or terminated, the amount of available resources may change dynamically. Networked MultiMedia applications must be willing to adapt to these changes by taking advantage of the fact that they can deliver varying levels of service that are acceptable to users. This paper addresses the problem of adding network and host adaptive capability to DirectShow™ RTP.DirectShow™ is Microsoft's architecture for capture and presentation of multimedia data. DirectShow RTP is a framework that extends the DirectShow architecture, adding support for streaming multimedia data using the RTP protocol. We have extended this framework by adding support for streaming applications which dynamically compensate for varying resource availability on the local host and on the computer networks being used to deliver multimedia data to and from these applications. The lessons learned are useful both to applications and to designers of frameworks used to build such applications.

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