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 be able to scale well, 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
Multimedia Player Software
Currently only one (multipurpose) player is available (for Unix):
recv. It connects to WWCN,
joins a channel, and captures the multimedia stream that
is being transmitted on the channel. You can 'pipe' the stream
to your favorite media player (if it is capable of playing
streams via stdin), or redirect it to a file. Some usage examples:
# recv wwcn.org radio.classic4u -s | mpg123 -'-s' tells recv not to wait for a Start of File token, but to immediately start receiving the data stream. The stream is piped to stdin of mpg123, that will happily play the stream.
# recv wwcn.org software.linux.latest-kernel > linux.tgzan example to get a binary file (the latest linux kernel) that is being transmitted on a channel. WWCN is particularly useful for multicasting binary files.
For an extensive manual, see the
online
manual in the manual section.
The counterpart of 'recv' is a stream producer called 'xmit'. You can read more about xmit in
the
producers section.
You can download recv, xmit, fifo123 and the server package 'datasphere'
from the download section.