All things related to multicast

[Dan Oachs <>]

We do use vlc to create multicast streams but we also use it to play  
the streams.

We encode to MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 which vlc and QuickTime are happy to  
play.  I think windows media player can play the streams as well if I  
remember correctly.

--Dan Oachs

On Jan 16, 2009, at 5:54 PM, "Eschete, Daniel" <>  
wrote:

> Are you using VLC for your solution? I have VLC in place, just I can't
> get the connection to succeed over MMS:// for windows media player
> clients once I change to a multicast IP address.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Mavrogeanes 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 5:44 PM
> To: Eschete, Daniel; Dan Oachs
> Cc: ; Chris Robb; Tim Rue; wg- 
>
> Subject: RE: Inauguration Day Stream(s)
>
> Not at all!  I'll put up a WM m/c stream for the event and let this
> group know when it's available...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eschete, Daniel 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 6:39 PM
> To: Dan Oachs
> Cc: ; Chris Robb; Tim Rue; wg- 
>
> Subject: RE: Inauguration Day Stream(s)
>
> 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; wg- 
>
> 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.