On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 04:55, Fco. J. Montilla wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I actually have obs on my company headquarters, where all my mates are delighted
> (in fact they started to bring more and more CDs to work where y compress them
> and put on the obs database, about 3100 songs!). We have several other branches
> that interconnect to the headquarter's LAN using VPN on some cases, and FR on
> others.

Excellent! 

> I have researched a little, including that starmedia paper but so far I'm lost.
> I guess what I should aim to is to integrate my multicast stream into the
> internet (mbone?) and then make the other branches to join it. Wonder with all
> difficulties intermediate ISPs, etc, will this render this approach impossible?

Effectively, yes. I would not recommend doing any multicast over the
bare Internet -- its frought with problems.

The proper way to solve this is to use icecast as a tunneling mechanism.
If you have an Obs box at location A, and you want to listen to the same
stream at location B, but A and B are seperated by the Internet, then
set up icecast as a tunnel. You'll need an icecast server at both points
-- just have the icecast server at point B propagate a stream from
icecast server A.

However, this isn't quite what you want. Icecast does not do multicast,
so location B cannot use multicast. Also, location B will not be able to
listen to the same stream as location A -- you will need to set up
different channels.

That is, unless enough people bug me to fix obs so that you can listen
to a stream via multicast and icecast at the same time.

-- 

--ruaok         Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing

Robert Kaye   --    [EMAIL PROTECTED]   --   http://www.mayhem-chaos.net

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