From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 30 15:37:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from naiad.eclipse.net.uk (naiad.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3F215871 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 15:37:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sh@eclipse.net.uk) Received: by naiad.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix, from userid 65534) id C25F71339E; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:37:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Stuart Henderson To: jahanur Reply-To: Stuart Henderson Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: IMP 2.0.10-cvs X-Complaints-To: abuse@eclipse.net.uk X-Trace: webmail.octarine.org/212.104.138.232/195.188.32.32/1.0 thebe.proxy.eclipse.net.uk:8080 (Squid/2.3.DEVEL2) Subject: Re: Media streaming server Message-Id: <19991130233743.C25F71339E@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:37:43 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > What is the best media streaming server for Freebsd. Probably RealServer, since it negotiates with clients for connection speed and so on. On the downside, it does work out rather expensive for licensing. On the upside, native FreeBSD binaries are available. > And also free or cheaper. Cheaper than free? You'll be lucky :) Icecast is one option (shoutcast-compatible for mp3s). If you need support for more common clients on the cheap and don't need to send out live streams[1] you could get away with serving single-rate RealMedia files from a webserver if you expect a reasonably low client volume (see http://real.com and dig around devzone for information on setting the files up). (RM server will try to pace with the clients and doesn't send more than it thinks they can accept, it buffers or drops the rest as necessary: as web servers are all tcp, guaranteed delivery, guaranteed in-order, a single dropped packet will stall the client until it's been retransmitted). One upside to http-streaming is it can be cached at a squid proxy. [1] okay, there might just be a way to do that, but it smells. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message