World Wide Conferencing Network
WWCN is a system that provides multimedia conferencing services on a world-wide scale. It has been optimized for realtime data delivery: music, voice, video, pictures, text, software updates, and so on. To cope with today's bandwidth scarcity, it implements a reliable "multicasting" technology (one to many data communication) over standard TCP (internet) connections.
WHAT IS WWCN?
Introduction
White papers
HOWTO...
connect
tune in
build a network?
SOFTWARE
multimedia players
multimedia producers
chat clients
server software
How to connect?
To connect, you first need a suitable client or player. You can use a standard IRC client to make use of the text-based conferencing capabilities of WWCN, or you can use the 'recv' program to receive any (multimedia) data stream.If you are using an IRC client, then it is very important to know that WWCN uses port 7777 instead of port 6667. You will have to tell your IRC client explicitly that you want to connect to port 7777; this can be done via a command line option in most Unix clients, or if you are using a Windows client, then the port option is often in the same configure window as where you configure the hostname. The software that has been specifically written for WWCN, such as 'xmit' and 'recv', already use port 7777 by default.
The hostname of the main WWCN server is 'wwcn.org', so to play with
WWCN you can just connect to this server.
Some examples:
# irc -p 7777 mynick wwcn.org # xmit wwcn.org my.channel -f my-media.file