Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:

> > Oh, and of course Internet standards based players are available for
> > all platforms, right?
>
> Yes (for a larger value of "all" than RealPlayer supports). vic/vat/rat
> are portable to many UNIX variants, and also run under Windows. I
> think that MacOS is the only orphan in this scenario, but ISTR there

macos has quicktime 5.0 which can handle both the h.261/pcm and mpeg stream

> are protocol proxies available that will gateway to something MacOS
> can handle (assuming they can't directly view H.261 multicast with
> some other tools).
>
> --lyndon
>

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