CentOS - Dec 2005 - audio and video streaming, equipment, and centos 4

greetings...

and a heartfelt happy upcoming new year to everyone!

scenario: company wants to stream realtime audio and/or video streams of
their meetings

i have done "a decent amount" of research on the necessary server side
software to integrate into centos. not sure i like all that i see though.

since the company is on about a 1.5 meg circuit i would expect to hook the
equipment into a small centos box at the church which would forward a single
stream to a centos server i have at the pop and feed all the client streams
from where the bandwidth is.

that is, if i am understanding everything correctly.

so i felt it best to check the wisdom of the list on those already doing
this for the church or other private or commercial entities.

may i enquire as to what you are using for the server software?

and, may i ask what *specific* hardware for audio and video devices you are
using to do this please? something reasonably affordable?

any extra guidance or instructions i should be researching or studying to
implement this?

if you find this is too OT and you wish to reply off list i would be happy
to post to the list at a later date the results of the research and
implementation

i thank you in advance and kind regards,

 - rh

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Robert Hanson - Abba Communications
   Computer & Internet Services
 (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net