How do you put a TV station on the Mbone?

[jra at baylink.com (Jay Ashworth)]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Lockhart" <simon at slimey.org>
> > I have in my hand an NTSC video cable and an XLR with audio. How do
> > I hook that to the mbone? :-)
> 
> Simple.
> 
> Go get yourself an encoder - VBrick, Envivio, Tandberg, etc, etc - there's
> plenty out there, take your pick. That'll take video + audio as an input, and
> output the encoded video (typically MPEG-2 or H.264 in an MPEG-2 transport
> stream) as multicast.
> 
> Hook that into your favourite ISP that supports global multicast
> (several of the tier-1's do), and you're all done.

Really.  It's that trivial?  Ok.  Cool.  Anyone know if Road Runner's one of 
those?  And how do viewers watch it?

Cheers,
-- jra