[140061] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Apr 29 17:54:15 2011
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:49:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110429214742.GI28613@virtual.bogons.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Lockhart" <simon@slimey.org>
> > I have in my hand an NTSC video cable and an XLR with audio. How do
> > I hook that to the mbone? :-)
>
> Simple.
>
> Go get yourself an encoder - VBrick, Envivio, Tandberg, etc, etc - there's
> plenty out there, take your pick. That'll take video + audio as an input, and
> output the encoded video (typically MPEG-2 or H.264 in an MPEG-2 transport
> stream) as multicast.
>
> Hook that into your favourite ISP that supports global multicast
> (several of the tier-1's do), and you're all done.
Really. It's that trivial? Ok. Cool. Anyone know if Road Runner's one of
those? And how do viewers watch it?
Cheers,
-- jra
