All things related to multicast

[Ben Fineman <>]

Hi all,

Thanks for your feedback thus far. I've had anecdotal experiences  
where in VLC 9, you have to manually change it from UDP to RTP in the  
MRL. That is, the MRL that works for me in VLC 9 is rtp:// 
@233.45.17.248:4444

Best,
Ben

On Feb 2, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Cort Buffington wrote:

> I can confirm as well. HD looks great on the final MacOS VLC 8.x  
> version, really messed up on MacOS VLC 9.x
>
> On Feb 2, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Gurcharan S. Khanna wrote:
>
> > all,
> >
> > following up on the version 8 working better than 9, this is true  
> > for me also
> > on a mac and on windows. what's going on? has there been some basic  
> > setting
> > changed by default that needs to be changed? does anyones notice  
> > this?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > -gurcharan
> >
> > Dan Oachs wrote:
> > > Actually it was just me.  Using VLC 9 on a mac, it looked  
> > > terrible.  Using VLC 8 on the same system, it looks great.
> > >
> > >  Thanks,
> > >     Dan Oachs
> > >
> > >
> > > Dan Oachs wrote:
> > > > Thanks for the info.  Unfortunately the HD stream is not working  
> > > > well enough for me to watch it here.  The SD feed looks good  
> > > > however.  It could be something on our end, but generally we have  
> > > > been able to get 25 Mbps multicast streams in the past.
> > > >
> > > >  Thanks,
> > > >     Dan Oachs
> > > >     Gustavus Adolphus College
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ben Fineman wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > We're currently sending multicast streams from Internet2/ESCC  
> > > > > Joint Techs Workshop in College Station, TX. There are three  
> > > > > multicast streams:
> > > > >
> > > > > HD MPEG2 (25 Mbps)
> > > > > 233.45.17.248:4444
> > > > >
> > > > > SD MPEG2 (6 Mbps)
> > > > > 233.45.17.245:4444
> > > > >
> > > > > DVTS (SD) (30 Mbps)
> > > > > 233.45.17.247:8000
> > > > >
> > > > > More info on this event (including unicast streamtypes and Adobe  
> > > > > Acrobat Connect session information) is available here: <http://jointtechs.es.net/texas2009/ 
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Any feedback is appreciated.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Ben
> > > > >
> > > > >
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