All things related to multicast

["David Devereaux-Weber, P.E. " <>]

Why not use Quicktime Broadcaster?  It's free, and it can do multicast. 
 We use QT Broadcaster to multicast television on our Digital Academic 
Television Network <http://datn.wisc.edu/> (click on "About" to learn 
more).  There is also a Quicktime Streaming Server if you want to serve 
up multiple unicast streams, but Broadcaster does multicast by itself.

Dave

Gary Parker wrote:
> On 15 Jun 2007, at 11:37, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>
> > Why not VLC? It is one of the best tools around. Note that one also has
> > vls which is the console part which is daemon only
>
> <deep_intake_of_breath> You had to ask, didn't you? :)
>
> Okay, I've set myself the task of setting up a PPC Mac Mini as an 
> 'appliance', if you will, to sit in a radio station and provide a live 
> multicast audio stream fed to it's line-in. The OS X port of VLC won't 
> accept anything other than files or network streams as input, so no 
> piping of audio into stdin or yoinking the audio straight out of 
> CoreAudio (as you can do with DirectShow on Windows or /dev/dsp on 
> *nix). I've gotten around this so far by installing EsounD (the 
> Enlightened Sound Daemon) and esdrec to get the system audio and pipe it 
> into lame which is, in turn, piping into the aforementioned, hacked, 
> testMP3StdStreamer.
>
> esdrec | lame -b 128 - - | mp3stdinstreamer
>
> This works quite nicely so long as nothing else is happening on the 
> machine as the mp3stdinstreamer app does no internal buffering and the 
> stream stutters badly when the app doesn't get the CPU time slices it 
> expects.
>
>
> > First thing you can look at is Shout2rtp:
> > http://minnie.tuhs.org/Programs/Shout2rtp/
> > Which can, as far as I recall, also stream from files directly.
> > I have an IPv6 version of it if you need it.
>
> Cheers, I'll have a look at that.
>
>
> > Buffering should be handled in the client IMHO. Or do you mean buffering
> > while reading the file from stdin?
>
> I'm pretty sure it's the buffering of reading from stdin that's the 
> problem, although this may have more to do with Nick's mention of MP3 
> behaving very well when streamed (thanks for that, btw, Nick. I'm 
> compiling tooLame as I type).
>
> Gary

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