All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

At 12:40 PM -0500 2/28/02, Matthew Davy wrote:
> What are you using for a multicast A/V client ?   The OS-X version of
> MacTV seems to work fairly well - although it seems more CPU intensive
> than I would have thought.

I hadn't realized there was one, but I just downloaded it and it does 
work well. Didn't notice unusual CPU utilization, about 5% on my 
G4/400. I mentioned your report to Joe Huber and he was going to look 
into it.

The beacon, on the other hand, was quite a CPU hog, so I'm not 
running it right now. . .

I was using QuickTime 5 Pro and handing it SDP files, which is more 
or less what MacTV automates for you. That works for H.261 and MPEG1 
video. I've also tried VideoLAN, a fine MPEG2 player for local files 
but it only supports multicast from its matching video server.

Unfortunately I don't have a streaming MP3 solution yet; QT5 crashes, 
and although iTunes accepts rtp URLs with multicast addresses it 
doesn't appear to really understand them. I need to poke around to 
see what else is available.

Bill.