Linux and video multicasting

2008-07-09 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, My friend needs to broadcast an event live for 15 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 res

Re: Linux and video multicasting

2008-07-09 Thread Rami Rosen
Hello, I suggest that you try the pim daemon of Xorp: http://www.xorp.org/ Xorp is a large project; it contains the PIM-SM daemon (Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode) to handle multicasting in Linux. Make sure that your kernel is built with multicast support (recent kernels in most distro

Re: Linux and video multicasting

2009-01-29 Thread Erez D
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Arie Skliarouk wrote: > Hi, > > My friend needs to broadcast an event live for 15 viewers. Unicast > broadcasting requires tremendous bandwidth and hence - money. Thus he asked > me to check multicast option. > > There are "instructions" on doing multicast usin

Re: Linux and video multicasting

2009-01-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 02:57:46PM +0200, Erez D wrote: > The better soultion IMHO is peer2peer, however i am not aware of any > open-source software that lets you watch video online using peer2peer > technology $ apt-cache show miro ... Description: GTK+ based RSS video aggregator Miro (pre

Re: [Linux-il] Linux and video multicasting

2009-01-26 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Hi, My friend needs to broadcast an event live for 15 viewers. Unicast > broadcasting requires tremendous bandwidth and hence - money. Thus he asked > me to check multicast option. > Half an year ago it was not an option. It is still not. But BBC at UK started pushing ISPs into the right dir

Re: [Linux-il] Linux and video multicasting

2009-01-26 Thread sara fink
Unfortunately, there are no ISP in Israel that support Multicast. 2009/1/26 Arie Skliarouk > Hi, > > My friend needs to broadcast an event live for 15 viewers. Unicast >> broadcasting requires tremendous bandwidth and hence - money. Thus he asked >> me to check multicast option. >> > > Half