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Streaming the Inauguration In a School?

Posted by timothy on from the coronation-will-be-televised dept.

Anonymous Teacher writes "I work in a small school in Washington and we are trying to prepare a way to watch the inauguration in 20 classrooms over a 1.5 T1. As our bandwidth severely limits the ability to individually stream to these rooms, is there an alternative to presenting it to the students? Are there any sites that offer a downloadable copy of the video quickly after the event that can be hosted locally or is reconfiguring the computers to use a proxy server the best solution?"

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  1. VLC? by Tyris · · Score: 5, Informative

    Could be wrong, but can't VLC (VideoLanClient) do the trick?
    Get it to recieve one copy of the stream, and then repeat it over the local network (assuming your local network has the bandwidth).

  2. VLC - VideoLAN Client by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 3, Informative

    VLC might be an option.

    VLC can play back from a file that another process is writing to. So if you can figure out how to write the incoming video stream to a network filesystem, each classroom could use VLC to playback that file and you would only have to worry about a delay buffer of a minute or two to ensure smooth playback.

    While I have not tried it myself, VLC is also capable of rebroadcasting video. So if you can view the live stream directly with VLC, you can probably get that copy of VLC to multiplex it out to other VLC clients on other machines.

  3. Broadcast/multicast? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 2, Informative

    You shouldn't even need more bandwidth, if your local network is configured properly.

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  4. Re:Is this why... by NNKK · · Score: 3, Informative

    The fact that they're running off a single T1 would seem to imply that the "Washington" being referred to is Washington State, not D.C. (since the latter is unlikely to have anywhere in it that it's not far easier and more economical to go for DSL or another more modern solution, yet there are many such places in Washington State).

    That being the case, some small schools, particularly in eastern parts of the state, may have difficulty getting any sort of television signal. Check out a map, we've got an awful lot of empty space up here.

  5. CNN, VLC by gatkinso · · Score: 2, Informative

    Watch it on CNN.

    Or, download it and UDP stream to your.sub.net.255.

       

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