[streaming] Re: Use of VLC in WAN/MAN

[Bjørn Olav Ruud]

Multicast, UDP/TS. The VoD will be unicast of course. Transport for
that hasn't been decided yet.


 -Bjorn Ruud


On 1/29/07, Marshall Eubanks <tme at multicasttech.com> wrote:
> Does this use unicast or multicast ?
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
> On Jan 29, 2007, at 3:48 AM, Bjørn Olav Ruud wrote:
>
> > I cant't give you access to any streams, but my company offers MPEG-4
> > IPTV over a WAN in the Oslo region in Norway, to 350+ patient
> > terminals distributed over 5 hospitals. TV and radio (and soon VoD and
> > MoD) is transcoded, streamed and played back using VLC. So if you're
> > asking wether VLC can be used for such applications, yes it can. It is
> > not without issues though. We had to write a surveillance script for
> > our transcoders that watches for anomalies and resets VLC if something
> > bad happens, so I wouldn't call VLC ready for production use if you
> > want the service level of a TV broadcaster.
> >
> > For those interested, my company's web site:
> > http://www.hospitality.no/
> >
> >
> > -Bjorn Ruud
> >
> >
> > On 1/28/07, Pepo <pmancheno at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi friends...
> >>
> >> Do you know if some company is using VLC to offer IPTV in a WAN/
> >> MAN? I mean is
> >> somebody using really VLC to offer IPTV in a city for example?
> >>
> >> If there is some company (I am almost sure :)) please give me the
> >> URL to visit
> >> they.
> >>
> >> A lot of thanks.
> >>
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