All things related to multicast

[Frank Fulchiero <>]

Hi Rich,

One of our issues is that we want to install and/or support as few  
player "flavors" as possible on our 2500+ "campus community"  
computers (i.e: faculty, students, staff, etc.).
And that number is real small compared to some institutions.
So, we look for players that can perform as many functions as  
possible, and are also cross-platform (PC/Mac), as we are about 20%  
Mac. Not to forget the linux lovers, that would be a bonus, but a  
small percentage here.

We have more or less settled on QuickTime and VLC right now, for  
video clients, for the above reasons, along with the ubiquitous Flash  
(though we are not encoding in FLV).

QuickTime is installed on all computers here, and we are starting to  
look at VLC as the "other" player to support, if needed.

StreamPlayer is nice, but no Mac client, and does not decode as many  
codecs/file types as QT and VLC.

Of course, for specialized purposes, such as teaching stations, etc.  
I would be happy installing and supporting StreamPlayer if it's the  
best solution for the task at hand.
And StreamPlayer Plus offers more advantages and features, if they  
are needed.

Just my humble $.02, and we are just getting started in this, so we  
have a lot to learn. We also want to migrate the MPEG2 streams to AVC/ 
H.264 by next summer, if possible. That will be another learning curve.

Frank


On Aug 17, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Richard Mavrogeanes wrote:

> MPEG-4 is sent in standard ISMA format (VBrick is a reference platform
> for this). You can view it with StreamPlayer. Viewing with other  
> players
> (QuickTime, VLC) is more complex but possible.
>
> /rich