Hi, My friend needs to broadcast an event live for 150000 viewers. Unicast broadcasting requires tremendous bandwidth and hence - money. Thus he asked me to check multicast option.
There are "instructions" on doing multicast using VLC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpkmdi1gKvM but during my researches I discovered that few deployed routers support multicasting technolody, and even then, the resulting video stream would suffer from slightest packet drop. Can anybody comment? If I understand correctly, every multicast-enabled router or firewall must monitor subscribed multicasts and periodically poll the clients, whether they are still interested in getting the multicast stream. I have not found a way to forward multicast packets on Linux. Once there was package mrouterd, but it is not shipped anymore. Have anybody worked with multicasted video on Linux? -- Arie
