From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mats Elmeskog) Subject: Accessing multicasts from non-multicast enabled nets When you set up a stream multicast access only, people who try to access this stream from non-multicastenabled environments get an errormessage saying. "RealPlayer cannot show the stream" (or something to that effect). This is not very good as the player in fact works beautifully, only their environment does not support Multicasts. I want to be able to send them an errormessage saying "This material is Multicast only. Your networks does not support IP-multicast. Please contact your networks administrator" or even better, have the system release a stream with a nice voice telling the would-be-viewer that his player works beautifully, only his Network does not support IP-Multicast. I believe that something like this can be achieved using a CGI-script thet checks whether the requesting IP-adress is within the multicast subnet, but I haven't seen it done. Does anyone know how I could go about this? All ideas are good ideas. Otherwise I will be overloaded with emails from people whi think the player sucks when it is actually their network that is inadequate. If anyone has any ideas on this please post it! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************* The RealForum is an email discussion group focused on using RealNetworks products. The RealForum is a place to post messages about the best methods for creating content using RealNetworks technologies and the planning and implementation of streaming-media web sites. If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe realforum or from another account, besides the address you subscribed with: unsubscribe realforum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
