All things related to multicast

[Bill Owens <>]

At 14:32 -0200 2/13/03, João Paulo Malheiro de Barcelos wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just implemented multicast in the network I work in, and am
> already watching videos through SDR 3.0. But I only watch the videos
> that come through h.261 and with no sound, even though I have
> installed RAT and VIC.

Which sources are you watching? Many don't have any audio traffic.

> I´ve read about IPTV, MIM and REALONE, but all those are payed. Which
> is better? Do all these receive SDP format?

IP/TV has probably the best a/v performance for H.261 and MPEG-1, but
is Windows only. I don't like RealONE because of their spyware
component, but I've heard the software works well.

On my MacOS X machine I use QuickTime with MacTV as a front end, and
it takes care of anything in RTP format; VideoLAN handles MPEG-2 in
system stream format (such as from a VBrick) but I've not had it work
with MPEG-1. VideoLAN also works under most Unixes, as do Xine and
mplayer.

Bill.