Alejandro Imass wrote: > > > > > A quick look at Icecast showed that it does not support multicast either. > > It this true? If so, Icecast is completely useless for my scenario. > > > > AFAIK very few media streamers (or none) actually support real IPv4 > (Class D) Multicast. They support what is known as "application > multicast" akin to a multi-process/multi-threaded Web server. > > I don't know much about real IPv4 Multicast but I've heard it's not > that easy to do in the real world and would probably require > coordination with your ISP unless you're multicasting in a private > networks.
I use multicasting in a corporate network. > Again, IMHO because I've never even attempted multicasting. It's fun and very pleasing aesthetically :) At least on Cisco. As to the original question. I have had some success with multimedia/ffmpeg, at least this: ffmpeg -i file.mp3 -acodec copy -f rtp rtp://239.8.8.8:5000 -re does send a multicast stream which can be listened to with VLC (but not mplayer for some reason) on multiple hosts. Now I need to figure out how to stream live sound from /dev/dsp. All my attemps to record sound from a USB audio interface have resulted so far in a severely distorted growl instead of normal voice. Does anybody know how to figure out the sampling rate and other parameters of the sound card? "cat /dev/sndstat" does not output anything really useful. > > Why do you need multicasting anyway? To save bandwidth mostly, and it's fun to setup :). Taking into account that I have PIM working across all our WAN links (an in-house monitoring/alarm system relies thereupon), it would be nice to use this infrastructure for sound too. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"