Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:16:45 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RealVideo reverse proxy Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20060307191356.09107738@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <440E11BF.3060804@elischer.org> References: <6.2.3.4.0.20060307143600.076cfc68@64.7.153.2> <440E11BF.3060804@elischer.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 06:05 PM 07/03/2006, Julian Elischer wrote:
>Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>>A customer of ours has a requirement to do some very infrequent
>>real video broadcasting using Sony Anycast equipment. Is there any
>>way on FreeBSD to act as a reverse proxy for them ?
>>
>>Ideally, I would like to setup something like
>>
>>Sony Anycast video
>>that puts out ---------DSL------FreeBSD server---- multiple
>>clients viewing the stream via the FreeBSD server
>>RealVideo
>>
>>Where ideally, I would like reverse proxy the stream on the FreeBSD
>>box which has proper bandwidth to the outside world. Is this
>>possible on FreeBSD ? If so, what are you using ?
>
>
>I did this with the apple streaming server for my quicktime streams
>but I doubt that it works for
>a real stream.. (might check though)
Thanks, I am just in the process of installing the Darwin server
now. I am wondering if there would be enough CPU power to convert
the stream real time via mencoder or ffmpeg. Will have to experiment a bit.
>didn't the Real (TM) server run on freeBSD at one stage?
The only Real server I found were the commercial ones ? I seem to
recall there used to be a free server for a limited amount of
streams, but this customer needs 25-40.
---Mike
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?6.2.3.4.0.20060307191356.09107738>