Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:25:06 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RealVideo reverse proxy Message-ID: <440E2462.1030909@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060307191356.09107738@64.7.153.2> References: <6.2.3.4.0.20060307143600.076cfc68@64.7.153.2> <440E11BF.3060804@elischer.org> <6.2.3.4.0.20060307191356.09107738@64.7.153.2>
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Mike Tancsa wrote: > 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. pipe it through another machine for conversion :-) > > >> 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. Did they specifically say they would refuse to pay for this? (They want something for nothing) Might be worth asking them. > > ---Mike
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