Requirements

Network

• Your network can be or not on the MBone (Multicast Bone) since we use rtptrans as a RTP translator for hosts which cannot reach directly the MBone.

Tools

• To listen/watch audio/video streams from the MBone, you need standard tools like rat, vic, vat, to be installed locally. We strongly recommand to use rat for audio and vic for video.

Browser

• You need to have a Netscape browser, Avods doesn't run with MS Internet Explorer.

Unix

• To launch MBone tools, on an Unix box, through Netscape, you need to define the following Mime mappings in /usr/local/lib/netscape/mailcap or in your preference->helpers:

  #
  # MBone tools
  #
  application/x-rat;        rat `cat %s` 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  application/x-vic;        vic `cat %s` 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  application/x-vat;        vat `cat %s` 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  application/x-fphone;     fphone `cat %s` 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  application/x-rtpmpeg;    playrtpmpeg `cat %s` 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  

Windows

• To launch MBone tools under Windows/95/98/NT/2k, through Netscape, you need to install the wrapper wrapmb.exe into the

  "c:\Program Files\Mbone\"
  

  to automatically launch MBone tools which must be yet installed is this directory.

  Then, edit the Edit/Preference/Application/Edit of Netscape, you can put the command:

  "c:\Program Files\Mbone\wrapmb.exe" xxx %1
  

  where "xxx" is the name of the MBone tool selected as vic, rat,...

Mac

• To see MBone audio/video sessions under MacOS, through Netscape, you need to install the player QuickTime-4 which understands RTP flows and all well known audio/video payloads like h261 and the sdr-like announcer SillySAPClient-0.2.1d1 to listen SAP announcements on the MBone.

Other Tools

• To launch other audio/video players through Netscape, you need to define the following Mime mappings on Unix machines:

  #
  # Audio tools
  #
  #audio/mpeg;          mpg123 -q %s 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  audio/mpeg;           mxaudio %s 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  audio/x-pn-realaudio; rvplayer %s 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  audio/midi;           timidity -c /infres/midi/timidity.cfg %s 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  audio/x-wav;          sox -t .wav - -t .au - | xplay -forkoff -; stream-buffer-size=8000
  audio/*;              xplay -forkoff -; stream-buffer-size=8000 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  #
  # Video tools
  #
  video/mpeg;           mpeg_play %s 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  video/x-pn-realvideo; rvplayer %s 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  video/*;              xanim +Sr +Ae +Ak +Av50 +Ca +CF4 -Cn %s 1>/dev/null 2>&1
  

Server

• In case where you wish to install your own AVODS server:
  • to record audio/video streams from the MBone, you need rtpdump to be installed on an httpd server
  • to play audio/video streams, you need rtpplay to be installed on an httpd server