All things related to multicast

[Hank Magnuski <>]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Lappa, Joseph wrote:

> 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).

Take a look at

 http://www.ncast.com

We do MPEG-2 multicast streams natively.

> 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.

Darwin streaming server can do some of the conversions. We have used
it for multicast --> unicast. I don't know if it does unicast -->
multicast.

Hank