Delivering Live Content

With RealServer and RealEncoder or RealPublisher, you can send live events such as performances, speeches and public events directly to users' computers. Live events can also be saved to disk for later transmission or for archive purposes.

RealServer can deliver live content in the same way it delivers pre-recorded or static content, or if your all components of your network are configured for multicasting, you can multicast the live content.

To provide content in multiple compression algorithms, you need to run a RealEncoder or RealPublisher and a separate computer for each codec, all with the same input signal. All concurrently running RealEncoders or RealPublishers should use identical settings except for compression type and stream name. Each computer sends its output to a RealServer.

Bandwidth negotiation during live events is not supported by RealEncoder 5.0, RealPublisher 5.0 or RealServer 5.0.

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