Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

[Alastair Matthews]

on 30/3/01 2:08 am, Lyndon Nerenberg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> Oh, and of course Internet standards based players are available for
>> all platforms, right?
> 
> Yes (for a larger value of "all" than RealPlayer supports). vic/vat/rat
> are portable to many UNIX variants, and also run under Windows. I
> think that MacOS is the only orphan in this scenario, but ISTR there
> are protocol proxies available that will gateway to something MacOS
> can handle (assuming they can't directly view H.261 multicast with
> some other tools).


The Mac has the "SillySAPClient" which creates SDP file which Quicktime can
handle.

http://macinfo.its.queensu.ca/MBONE/SillySAPClient.html

And the most excellent MacTV, U Oregon operate a content server.

http://www.iwitnessTV.com/

They offer H.261 and mpeg1 support.

You can only view streamed mpeg1 with the Quicktime 5 public preview.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/

(Those folk experiencing problems with Multicast and MacOS 9.1 try upgrading
to Airport 1.3, it seems to fix the problem.)


There's even a multicast streaming server or two....

http://www.evological.com/coolstream.html

(Doesn't generate SAP Announcements but that's not a huge problem)

and 

Sorenson Broadcaster

http://www.sorenson.com/products/broadcaster.html


A.


-- 
Alastair Matthews
Electronics Research Group
University of Aberdeen

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