All things related to multicast

["Eschete, Daniel" <>]

Dan,

We are trying to broadcast the video so that it can be viewed by Windows
Media Player clients.  I can get this to work using my Unicast IP
address, but when I change to a multicast address the functionality
ceases.  Both machines are on the same subnet so there are no routing
issues to worry about (yet!)

I am using MMSH as my transport, ASF/WMV encapsulation and MP3 for
audio. 

Any ideas?  Is MMS:// restricted to unicast functionality?

Thanks,

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Oachs 
[mailto:]
 
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 4:16 PM
To: Eschete, Daniel
Cc: 
;
 Chris Robb; Tim Rue; 

Subject: Re: Inauguration Day Stream(s)

VLC   http://www.videolan.org/  can do some amazing things.  It 
definitely can take video from a capture card and stream it out in 
multicast as well as a bunch of other ways.

--Dan Oachs


Eschete, Daniel wrote:
> If we have a PC with a video capture card, is there an open source
> solution that will enable us make this machine a "server" that will
> provide an SSM stream to our users?  This machine is Windows based.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Owens 
> [mailto:]
>  
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 8:58 AM
> To: Chris Robb
> Cc: Tim Rue; 
> 
> Subject: Re: Inauguration Day Stream(s)
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 09:41:31AM -0500, Chris Robb wrote:
>   
>> C-Span provides live unicast streams on their website. They are an  
>> Internet2 Participant via the Indiana Gigapop, so that would be  
>> another vector. I imagine there will be several other unicast streams
>>     
>
>   
>> from CPS-reachable sources.
>>     
>
> I haven't gone too deep into this, but it appears that the stream is
> sourced from a place called Real Broadcast Network, IP 66.203.121.171,
> and I'm reaching that over the commercial Internet. Don't know if they
> might be part of CPS though.
>
> Bill.
>
>