Re: live streaming and saving to file simultaneously

On Fri, 20 May 2005 12:28:38 -0700, "Mike Lowery"
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>"Ramada" <Ramada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Hi.
>> I want to broadcast a live radio event using voice only codec to optimize
>> bandwidth. I will install Win2003 Enterprise plus WMS9 on a P4 2.4GHz 1Gb RAM.
>> I want to execute the encoder and the server in the same computer. And also
>> want to stream the live event and save to a file simultaneosly.
>> Is this too risky? Should I use 2 machines? Can live streaming and saving
>> to file coexist in peace?? Suggestions are very welcome!
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>Yes they can, as long as your machine is beefy enough. Having very fast
>defragmented hard drives (RAID array) will help.

Sure thing - but voice streams are *very* light on CPU, on that box
you'd be lucky to hit 10% CPU and voice only goes to a datarate of
16kbps really, so you're not going to need raid disks ;-))

Agree that would be appropriate for high quality video work though.

Cheers - Neil

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