The OSCAR is the first H.264 encoder appliance designed by HaiVision specifically for QuickTime environments. It natively supports the RTSP streaming media protocol. The OSCAR can stream directly to QuickTime supporting up to full D1 resolution (full standard definition resolution or 720 x 480 NTSC / 576 PAL) at video bit rates up to 1.5 Mbps. The OSCAR supports either multicast or unicast RTSP sessions. With either, up to 10 separate destination streams can be generated by a single OSCAR encoder (more at lower bit rates). So, on a college campus for example, this simple, compact, rugged appliance can be placed virtually anywhere and with a simple network connection can stream video to any QuickTime client on the local network or over the WAN. If more than 10 QuickTime clients need to view or access the video, the OSCAR can be directed to a QuickTime Streaming Server which can typically host well over 1000 clients
-----Original Message----- From: Brandon Galbraith [mailto:brandon.galbraith@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:51 PM To: Joe Abley Cc: nanog@nanog.org; Joe Greco Subject: Re: [Nanog] ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010
On 4/22/08, Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> wrote:
On 22 Apr 2008, at 12:47, Joe Greco wrote:
You mean a computer? Like the one that runs file-sharing clients?
Like the one that nobody really wants to watch large
television on?
Perhaps more like the mac mini that's plugged into the big plasma screen in the living room? Or one of the many stereo-component-styled "media" PCs sold for the same purpose, perhaps even running Windows MCE, a commercial operating system sold precisely because
quantities of people want
to hook their computers up to televisions?
Or the old-school hacked XBox running XBMC, pulling video over SMB from the PC in the other room?
Or the XBox 360 which can play media from the home-user NAS in the back room? The one with the bittorrent client on it? :-)
Don't forget the laptop or thin desktop hooked up to the 24-60 inch monitor in the bedroom/living room to watch Netflix Watch It Now content (which there is no limit on how much can be viewed by a customer).
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