From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Oct 24 20:16:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from onizuka.vmunix.org (onizuka.vmunix.org [194.221.152.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 730B637B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 20:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (1091 bytes) by onizuka.vmunix.org via sendmail with stdio (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 05:16:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 05:16:20 +0200 (CEST) From: torstenb@vmunix.org (Torsten Blum) To: uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Streaming MPEG.. References: <200010241545.RAA08067@monos.secnetix.net> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In freebsd-multimedia you wrote: >> Note that "I-frame crippled" MPEG has pretty poor >> compression/quality, compared to "real" MPEG streams >> (with I, B and P frames). [...] >man vic, from 1995, says, that MPEG isnt supported yet, Have a look at http://videolab.uoregon.edu/mim/ It's basically decapsulating the MPEG/RTP frames it receives from a multicast group and feeds it to mtvp (the commandline version). Works quite nice. I've been using it to view MPEG1 streams generated by Cisco's IPTV. >contrary to former plans, and I saw a big SGI Media server, >that can stream 100 MPEG streams...but this is broadband. The only multicat capable MPEG streaming server I know is Cisco's IPTV and that's running on NiceTry ;( It claims to support MPEG2 and MPEG4 as well. -tb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message