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Subject: Re: Live video streaming on FreeBSD?
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On Wednesday 24 October 2007 17:03:57 Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> > /usr/ports/multimedia/mencoder can encode/recode videos to many
> > different formats, including wmv9 and H.264.
> >
> > /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc contains a streaming server, IIRC.
>
> Do any of these support multicast?  Cisco is pushing this big time with
> AVVID.

vlc supports multicast. Cisco has a marketing department and maybe
according to them multicast would be the "new hot stuff".

Nikos