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Re: you're gonna love this
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lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
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Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:46:15 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry wrote:
> "Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote:
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> > For Brickfest, I am bringing one completely self contained webcast production
> > system. I am currently sitting here in IMEDIA, reconfiguring desktops to use as
> > a server pair. I was SO desperate for an extra hard disk to Ghost MediaServices
> > onto, I was, yes, unscrewing a Quantum Bigfoot CY out of an old PC just to use
> > it. Thankfully the thing wouldn't spin up. IMLCAST2 is being powered by a
> > 1.2GB Medallist. Sigh.
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> You are *so* geting raped at customs. :)
Thankfully that's the cool thing about Microsoft WindowsMedia Streaming: I only
need to bring down one machine. If I had a USB video adapter, heck, I'd only
need to bring down my laptop!
The onsite PC acts as an "encoder". It could serve multiple connections from
"clients" (ie, viewers) but instead the only clients are NT servers with Media
Services which I set up last night at the University. I remote into them and
connect them to the "encoder", then publish out the links to these "servers".
That way all the "clients" connect to the "servers" which redistribute the
stream from the "Encoder". All the heavy lifting is done by the cluster of
media servers back in Toronto (and hopefully elsewhere).
If you can call two Dell Celeron desktops with hard drives hung upside down and
with a sign that says "Don't Turn Me Off!" taped onto it a "cluster" of
machines.
I will stop using "quotes" now.
Calum
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