[xine-user] Xine Broadcast mode

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Hello:

I have just spent some time looking at the xine broadcast
feature in the newest xine-lib.  It seems to work very
well, however I had a question:

Are there any plans to support udp multicast of video?  I
know xine is able to play multicast rtp sources, but I
would like to see it be able to send them as well.

Multicast has several benefits over the what appears to be
TCP connection oriented method used in the latest
xine-lib.  For one thing, multicast scales much better
than TCP streaming.  In a TCP streaming environment, if
you were to stream DVD video to 10 clients, you would need
a server machine capable of sustaining 80-100 Mbit/sec
network throughput, or worse for 100 clients, a
Gigabit/sec.  Multicast streaming would allow you to
support thousands of clients with 8-10 Mbit/sec (1 stream)

Consider it a feature request....

Rett Walters