All things related to multicast

[Gary Parker <>]

Morning all, I just wanted to bring a little project I've been working  
on that's about to come to fruition to your collective attention.  
Loughborough University is hosting this year's 'Real Varsity' rugby  
match between ourselves and Bath University and I was asked by our  
Director if we could cover the match, primarily for alumni and off- 
campus users.

I've been working with our student TV station, LSUTV, for the last few  
months to get this going and with a little help from Unibox we're  
almost there. We'll have 3 cameras on the pitch, 2 in a studio, pre- 
recorded interviews, studio pundits, presenters and commentators.  
We've put a lot of work into this and I'm confident it's going to look  
brilliant.

We'll be sending out two unicast Quicktime MPEG4 streams (768kb/s and  
1.5Mb/s) for access from anywhere on the Internet and a single 3Mb/s H. 
264 multicast stream for those of you who are multicast enabled. The  
multicast stream will be viewable in VLC and is also being carried on  
Inuk's Freewire IPTV service, channel 106.

The multicast stream will be going out on udp://@233.166.193.185:5000  
and all programming will start at 15:30UTC

Here's the official line:

The REAL Varsity 2008 - Wednesday 30th April KO 17:15

Loughborough Men and Womens 1st XVs take on Bath's 1st XVs in the  
annual rugby varsity. This is the fourth year for the match and the  
stage is set on Loughborough's 1st team pitch. The event is bigger and  
better than ever with live music and entertainment including the  
Skydive Club delivering the match ball at the start.

Tickets for the event are still available but if you can't attend in  
person LSUTV and Loughborough University's IT and Media Services  
departments are collaborating to broadcast both matches with live  
commentary and analysis on:

http://lsutv.co.uk/varsity

And watch the promo here:

http://www.lsutv.co.uk/varsity/promo/varsity_hi.mov

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