[streaming] Re: Resolution Pc Vs Tv

[John Anderson]

> Suppose I stream my video in about 4Mbps , which means
> in order to be able to stream 5 streams on my network
> I need to have a support for 20Mbps ,,,,,
> which means that If My hub can go only for 10 Mbps I
> will have a congestion .........
>
> The most important question is .... If am streaming 5
> Videos using vlc or vls with sap on the network and
> only 2 of them are being viewed would the total
> traffic on the network be 20Mbps assuming that each
> video is 4Mbps ?????
>
> This is important for me cause I need to know what to
> tell the owner before I tell him to go and buy the
> equipments to install it in the platform ......
>
> The platform consists of 18 appartment and already
> have network connection to each appartment for
> internet .....

If you are multicasting the video then you need to look into using a switch
that supports IGMP.  IGMP manages multicast traffic so that each endpoint
only receives the video stream it is requesting.  The cheapest IGMP capable
switch that I know of is the DLink DES-3226, which is about $350 (USD).

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