From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Aug 3 20:28:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21458 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:28:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21453 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 20:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28575; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 21:28:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <35C67FCD.EFE0720F@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 21:28:13 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hugh LaMaster CC: Jordan Krushen , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Live video + Apache References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hugh LaMaster wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Jordan Krushen wrote: > > > I've a client that is wanting to broadcast live video over the web, and I'm > > Personally, I don't care for this linguistic usage. > > "The Internet" != "The Web". Oh well... > > > wondering if anyone here has some pointers as to what would be the best > > capture cards and software (drivers and codecs) to do so.. Are there any > > Apache modules, or do they simply run as separate servers? > > Individual video streams don't scale to many users at decent > bandwidth. What you need in order to scale to (large bandwidth) > * (many recipients) is "multicast". Free software is available > for sender/receiver multicast applications, but for clients who > believe that "The Internet" == "The Web" I suggest using commercial > software. For example, two that I know of (this is not an > exhaustive list - do a Web search for more) are Precept > and Icast (both owned now by other companies, but, the > software will still be marketed under those names, I would > guess, for a while). And, if your network is more complicated than just a few workstations and a hub, you'll want to look into getting a high performance network to go with this. To the best of my knowlege, none of the layer-3 switches on the market currently FULLY support IP multicast services, but both Cisco and Xylan are close. The Bay RouteSwitch might have IPMS by year-end; ask your Bay representative. Disclaimer: I *will not* shoot myself in the foot on this one. Don't ask me for details; go search the internet or find a competent VAR who can help you. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message