All things related to multicast

[Ross Finlayson <>]

At 02:39 PM 1/8/03, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> Did you see that multicast made slashdot :
>
> Developers: DIY Ethernet Audio Receiver
> HardwarePosted by michael on Wednesday January 08, @09:53AM
> from the fly-by-wire dept.
> geo writes "I created this site to describe my latest toy: a digital audio 
> multicast receiver. LANPipe receives 16-bit, 44.1 kHz audio multicast from 
> a PC based server. The server uses a Winamp plug-in, so LANPipe can play 
> almost any source format (mp3, ogg, uncompressed). It even has a digital 
> audio output. The receiver uses a custom CPU written in VHDL and 
> implemented on a Xilinx FPGA. This was a fun project that is best 
> appreciated by fellow hardware geeks."
>
> http://www.thepowleys.com/lanpipe/

This look like a fun hack.  It would have been even cooler if their 
streaming PCM/multicast protocol used RTP (payload format 0).  (They don't 
say for sure, but they probably just handle PCM packed in plain ol' UDP 
multicast packets.)

        Ross.