Re: Office Mp3 streaming

["David Buckley" <db@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@h...> wrote:
> One computer streams music to all the computers and each
> computer can output the sound through their own speaker.
>
> Would this work? Or would it kill the network? We are on a
> 100mbit switch.

If everyone is going to listen to the same thing, then what you
really want is a multicast based distribution system, so there is
only one audio stream on the network.

This - http://esm.cs.cmu.edu - works;
the Darpa Grand Challenge was
sent out over it.  Its designed to do video with audio , but it
handles video and audio seperately, so if you dont configure video
support in your client, then quicktime comes up pictureless.  Maybe
they would let you have a copy for internal use...?

Of course, the problem you are going to have is synchronisation.
I'd reccommend doing audio distribution, over spare pairs of the
ethernet cat5 if necessary, but that'll cost money.




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