TCP vs UDP on video stream

Question

I just came home from my exam in network-programming, and one of the question they asked us was \"If you are going to stream video, would you use TCP or UDP? Give an

Answer 1

I recommend you to look at new p2p live protocol Bittorent Live.

As for streaming it's better to use UDP, first because it lowers the load on servers, but mostly because you can send packets with multicast, it's simpler than sending it to each connected client.