Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 16:01:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Hugh LaMaster <lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov> To: Jordan Krushen <wired@uniserve.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Live video + Apache Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980802155234.27157B-100000@george.arc.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: <00d301bdbbf8$a39b7640$45bbf4cc@chewtoy.uniserve.com>
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Jordan Krushen wrote: > I've a client that is wanting to broadcast live video over the web, and I'm Personally, I don't care for this linguistic usage. "The Internet" != "The Web". Oh well... > wondering if anyone here has some pointers as to what would be the best > capture cards and software (drivers and codecs) to do so.. Are there any > Apache modules, or do they simply run as separate servers? Individual video streams don't scale to many users at decent bandwidth. What you need in order to scale to (large bandwidth) * (many recipients) is "multicast". Free software is available for sender/receiver multicast applications, but for clients who believe that "The Internet" == "The Web" I suggest using commercial software. For example, two that I know of (this is not an exhaustive list - do a Web search for more) are Precept and Icast (both owned now by other companies, but, the software will still be marketed under those names, I would guess, for a while). -- Hugh LaMaster, M/S 233-21, ASCII Email: lamaster@george.arc.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Or: hlamaster@arc.nasa.gov Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 No Junkmail: USC 18 section 2701 Phone: 650/604-1056 Disclaimer: Unofficial, personal *opinion*. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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