RealVideo reverse proxy

[Mike Tancsa]

At 07:25 PM 07/03/2006, Julian Elischer wrote:

>>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.
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>pipe it through another machine for conversion :-)

True enough :)  A SMP / dual core box might do the trick.




>>>didn't the Real (TM) server run on freeBSD at one stage?
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>>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.
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>Did they specifically say they would refuse to pay for this? (They 
>want something for nothing) Might be worth asking them.


They are a non-profit research org.  They dont really have the money 
to spend and I am doing this mostly out of interest / 
experimentation.  But I will ask the Real people to see what the cost is.

         ---Mike