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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Dear Mr. Ross Finlayson,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks for your reply and suggestion. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>We want to run two instances of Live555 Media Server in a system
simultaneously with two different IP addresses. Example one with 192.168.1.2
and other with 10.0.0.2. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Is it possible and how can we
achieve this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Can you please tell us whether running Live555 Media Sever on different
configuration systems will affect the number of RTSP streams it can stream to multiple
clients.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Example like 50 streams max on a Pentium Dual Core system and
100 streams max in a Pentium Core 2 Duo system<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>When running each instance in a client, the CPU utilization
seems to go up as follows. Approximately on a Pentium Core 2 Duo system serving
60 clients it takes 95%. CPU utilization ( Live555 Media Server )<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoListParagraph><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>It takes roughly 1.5% CPU utilization time per client. We are
using OpenRTSP as client running on different system. Is Live555 Media Server
is CPU intensive application?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks and regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>M. Nambirajan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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live-devel-bounces@ns.live555.com [mailto:live-devel-bounces@ns.live555.com] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Ross Finlayson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 12, 2013 8:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> LIVE555 Streaming Media - development & use<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Live-devel] Support required for Live555 Media Server<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>1.</span><span
style='font-size:7.0pt'> <span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We
have installed the Live555 Media Server on Red Hat Linux version 6.2 system.
The Processor is Intel Pentium Dual core running at 2.6 GHz with 2GB DDR2 RAM</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We run
multiple instances of OpenRTSP client program / VLC player application on 34
client systems and used the RTSP Server to stream to 34 clients. In this
scenario</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The CPU
utilization of our Live555 RTSP Server has reached approximately 92% for
streaming. Beyond this, the RTSP stream in the first client system starts to
freeze and play</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Is it true
that each instance of streaming will take this much CPU resources?</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I suspect that you're hitting (or running close to hitting)
an operating system limit for the number of possible open sockets (see also
<<a href="http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html#scalability">http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html#scalability</a>>).
You may wish to increase this limit, if you can.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>2.</span><span
style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><span
style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Is it possible to run two instances
of Live555 Media Server application in the same Server simultaneously?</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Yes, by having each instance use a different RTSP port
number.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>3.</span><span
style='font-size:7.0pt'> <span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Is
it possible for us to make the Live555 Media Server to assign the IP address of
our wish. Example: There are two NIC ( Network Interface Card )in the system,</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>onboard as
well as PCI card based NIC. Is it possible to make the Live555 Media server to
take the PCI based NIC IP Address instead of onboard NIC IP Address.?</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Yes. The easiest way to ensure that one particular
interface is chosen is to make that interface the one for which multicast
routing is enabled - i.e., the interface that has a route for 224.0.0.0/4<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>Ross Finlayson</span></span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br>
<span class=apple-style-span>Live Networks, Inc.</span><br>
<span class=apple-style-span><a href="http://www.live555.com/">http://www.live555.com/</a></span></span>
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