All things related to multicast

[Alan Crosswell <>]

> Hi,
>   
>    We're talking to a vendor who can encode video into a high quality IP
> MPEG-2 unicast stream (single box codec with Ethernet as the output).
> Does anyone know of a commercial product that can take unicast streams
> and convert them to multicast.  Their product do this costs quite a bit
> and we're looking for alternatives.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 
> 

You just make the destination IP address one in the multicast range.
There's absolutely nothing the *encoder* has to do to do multicast.
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