RealVideo reverse proxy

[Julian Elischer]

Mike Tancsa wrote:

> At 06:05 PM 07/03/2006, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>> Mike Tancsa wrote:
>>
>>> A customer of ours has a requirement to do some very infrequent real 
>>> video broadcasting using Sony Anycast equipment.  Is there any way 
>>> on FreeBSD to act as a reverse proxy for them ?
>>>
>>> Ideally, I would like to setup something like
>>>
>>> Sony Anycast video
>>> that puts out  ---------DSL------FreeBSD server---- multiple clients 
>>> viewing the stream via the FreeBSD server
>>> RealVideo
>>>
>>> Where ideally, I would like reverse proxy the stream on the FreeBSD 
>>> box which has proper bandwidth to the outside world.  Is this 
>>> possible on FreeBSD ?  If so, what are you using ?
>>
>>
>>
>> I did this with the apple streaming server for my quicktime streams 
>> but I doubt that it works for
>> a real stream.. (might check though)
>
>
> Thanks, I am just in the process of installing the Darwin server now.  
> I am wondering if there would be enough CPU power to convert the 
> stream real time via mencoder or ffmpeg.  Will have to experiment a bit.

pipe it through another machine for conversion :-)

>
>
>> didn't the Real (TM) server run on freeBSD at one stage?
>
>
> The only Real server I found were the commercial ones ? I seem to 
> recall there used to be a free server for a limited amount of streams, 
> but this customer needs 25-40.


Did they specifically say they would refuse to pay for this? (They want 
something for nothing) Might be worth asking them.


>
>         ---Mike