All things related to multicast

["Marshall Eubanks" <>]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:46:30 -0500
 Tim Ward 
<>
 wrote:
> Quoting Alan Crosswell 
> ():
> > >Were you sending out SAP ? Did you make use of the I2 Multicast calendar 
> > >that Lucy Lynch maintains ?
> > 
> > Yes and yes, but since the Lucy calendar only runs when Lucy is available
> to
> > updated and I forgot until the afternoon before the event, it didn't get
> > posted.
> 
> 

Cool. Can they get our content that way ?

I do not really see how this helps to _announce_ content, however.

A few technical questions come to mind :

Are you using a Java media library, like JMF ? Which one ? How is the
performance - is it optimized ? Is the code open source?

I haven't booted into OS9 in months, but tomorrow I will try it out.

Marshall

> This is one reason I like our NUTV implementation.  You get the client 
> when you go to the web page.  And when your done viewing, the client 
> goes away.  And it means the announcment is a url.  Go to this web page 
> and click watch TV.  We're thinking of migrating the CSPAN content over 
> to it.
> 
> The watch TV link does not work for you all right now, but you should
> be able to read about the service at 
> 
> http://www.northwestern.edu/nutv
> 
> Tim
>