Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:33:07 -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: <6.2.3.4.0.20060307192940.071bac50@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <440E2462.1030909@elischer.org> 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> <440E2462.1030909@elischer.org>
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At 07:25 PM 07/03/2006, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>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 :-)
True enough :) A SMP / dual core box might do the trick.
>>>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.
They are a non-profit research org. They dont really have the money
to spend and I am doing this mostly out of interest /
experimentation. But I will ask the Real people to see what the cost is.
---Mike
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