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Video streaming

At APNIC meetings, many sessions are video streamed live via unicast and multicast, in MPEG4 format.

Viewing video streams of APNIC meetings

APNIC has tested QuickTime on Windows and Macintosh and Mplayer (with live.com support) on Linux/Unix platforms.

1. Quicktime

• To watch the video stream in a browser window, simply click on the video links provided on the APNIC meeting home page when the meeting is underway.

• To watch the video stream session in your QuickTime player directly, go to the File menu of QuickTime, select "Open URL in new player", and use the following URL:

rtsp://streaming.apnic.net/webcast2.sdp

2. MPlayer (with live.com support)

• To watch the video streams indicated as unicast, from the command line, enter:

mplayer -rtsp-stream-over-tcp rtsp://streaming.apnic.net/webcast2.sdp

• To watch the video streams indicated as multicast, first download the .sdp file linked from the on the APNIC meeting home page when the meeting is underway, then from the command line, enter:

mplayer sdp://multicast.sdp

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