From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 8 00:33:12 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 3EA3716A420 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 00:33:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48F3643D46 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 00:33:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k280X88c091748; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:33:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k280X8pI057049 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 19:33:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.0.20060307192940.071bac50@64.7.153.2> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:33:07 -0500 To: Julian Elischer From: Mike Tancsa 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 205.211.164.50 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 00:33:12 -0000 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