From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 8 00:25:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D329D16A420 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 00:25:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from a50.ironport.com (a50.ironport.com [63.251.108.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9480743D45 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 00:25:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from unknown (HELO [10.251.17.229]) ([10.251.17.229]) by a50.ironport.com with ESMTP; 07 Mar 2006 16:25:08 -0800 Message-ID: <440E2462.1030909@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:25:06 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050727 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa 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> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060307191356.09107738@64.7.153.2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RealVideo reverse proxy X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 00:25:07 -0000 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