Paazabel
8th December 2004, 01:21
As usual, work demands that straw be spun into gold (yet again).
I don't want a "best of" or anything like that. I just want some opinions from Doom9 users of how they would approach this problem.
Essentially, my company uses a satellite to tranmit video (4.2 meg MPEG-2) and they are looking at replacing it with 512kbps streams. Yeah, I can set up a Windows Media server in 30 minutes and have it multicasting and all is happy.
Except that, well, it looks like crap at 512k since this is 60-field NTSC live content. And, well, it's Microsoft. And, oh, it has to play out to a TV, somewhere (preferably back in an interlacing format). And it should make people thinner and their teeth shinier and not cost anything and ... yeah, you know how companies are.
In all seriousness, what would YOU use for streaming at limited bandwidth and why? I know this isn't DVD'ish, but it is related to video compression and transport ...
I don't want a "best of" or anything like that. I just want some opinions from Doom9 users of how they would approach this problem.
Essentially, my company uses a satellite to tranmit video (4.2 meg MPEG-2) and they are looking at replacing it with 512kbps streams. Yeah, I can set up a Windows Media server in 30 minutes and have it multicasting and all is happy.
Except that, well, it looks like crap at 512k since this is 60-field NTSC live content. And, well, it's Microsoft. And, oh, it has to play out to a TV, somewhere (preferably back in an interlacing format). And it should make people thinner and their teeth shinier and not cost anything and ... yeah, you know how companies are.
In all seriousness, what would YOU use for streaming at limited bandwidth and why? I know this isn't DVD'ish, but it is related to video compression and transport ...