RE: [WinMac] Streamming Audio

John Hanks(jbh[at]bioserver.vsb.usu.edu)
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:28:46 -0500

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Hi Omar,

We do a small amount of Real Video streaming using the free basic realserver
on a small Linux machine. If you are not looking for high volume, I
recommend grabbing an old Pentium machine and sticking Linux and the
realserver on it. Our machine is a P120 with 64MB RAM. It has (to my
knowledge) never served more than 17 streams (56k/28.8k on demand audio and
video) at once, but it did that without breaking a sweat.

I ran the 5.0 realserver on an NT machine for a while, but have found that
the Linux box requires less admin time once it is set up. For my situation
this was no fault of the realserver, but because of the other things the NT
box was doing.

The Real people are sort of slow about bringing updates to the Mac. But
basic versions of the server, player, and producer tools are free, so you
can't beat the price.

jbh

John Hanks, Computer Specialist
jbh@biology.usu.edu
Dept. of Biology
Utah State University

-----Original Message-----
From: Omar Chávez [mailto:OmarChavez@fliteline.usa.com]
Sent: Monday, April 05, 1999 10:01 AM
To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
Subject: [WinMac] Streamming Audio
Importance: High

Has anybody had any experience with hosting live RealAudio streams?

If so, Which route would you rather go NT or UNIX?

My next project requires some sort of Audio Streamming capability
(Windows and Macintosh clients) and I'd love to hear your comments and
recommendations.

If it was possible, I would prefer to go with a MacOS X solution
(RealAudio is available for FreeBSD 2.2.1 and other flavors of UNIX,
MacOS X is BSD-based). The question is: How difficult would it be to
recompile the app from FreeBSD to MacOS X considering the different
processors used?

Thank you in advance for your always expert and kind advice.

Cheers,

Omar Chávez
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