CannesCast '98 - North America

The 51st Cannes Festival on the MBone

As an experiment, Film Scouts and Bellcore will transmit interviews and other video programming from the 1998 Cannes Film Festival over the MBone. The video segments are produced as part of the coverage of the Cannes Film Festival by FilmScouts produced by Mayra Langdon Riesman.

The broadcasts will run every evening from 8pm until 4am Eastern Daylight Time, starting on May 6th with the Film Scouts Cannes Retrospective. As the festival goes on, new segments will be added to the broadcast.

Getting started

• What is the MBone, and how do I access it ? (More MBone info)
• What network connection do I need to receive CannesCast ?
  • Audio: transmitted at about ?? Kbit/s
  • Video: transmitted at about 128 Kbit/s
  • In other words: You're out of luck if you have a modem bandwidth of 28.8 or lower.
    However, if you're connected to an Ethernet or have another Internet feed with sufficient bandwidth (e.g. baserate ISDN or T1), you can receive the transmission.
• Download software for your platform (Unix Variants, PC Windows 95, Mac). You need:
  • Audio: vat
  • Video: vic
  • Start-up tool: sdr
• If you start the tools by hand, and for some reason don't want to use sdr, here are the parameters you need:
  • audio (vat 4.0b2):
    vat 224.2.141.240/21302/127
    (4-bit PCM4 format, multicast address 224.2.141.240, port 21302, time-to-live 127)
  • video (vic 2.8):
    vic -f h261 -t 127 -I 6 224.2.246.5/54270
    (H.261 format, time-to-live 127, channel 6, multicast address 224.2.246.5, port 54270)
• Do you like it ? Questions ? Send me mail.