UW CS&E 589 Lectures on the Internet


CS&E 589 lectures are viewable on the internet both live and on-demand.

The live lectures will be presented in Microsoft NetShow format, as well as in traditional MBONE format. We'll be using VXtreme for on-demand.

Live

To view the MBONE version, you may use any MBONE tools you may have. A commercial MBONE client for Windows is available free of charge to CS&E students faculty and staff. (contact fred@cs.washington.edu for more information)

To view a Netshow program, install the free Netshow client , and then at 6:30 on Wednesdays during Fall quarter click here to start the show .

On-demand

Before you view the VXtreme on-demand version of the lecture, you'll need to download and install a copy of the free VXtreme client. Note that there are two different versions of the client. This lecture has been encoded such that the free client will be suffice. An evaluation version of the "Gold" client is also available for download. The Gold client will also work fine, but the licence will expire approximately one month after the download. If the Gold client becomes free, you may see bit-rates of future lectures increase.

Links to the on-demand lectures will be posted in the main Lectures page

User Notes

I think the VXtreme pages using frames should now work with IE 4. Let me know if you still have trouble with this. The No-frames versions of the first 4 lectures are still available, just in case.

Both MBONE and Netshow may use multicast delivery (with Netshow multicast is optional). To receive multicast, you must have multicast-enabled routing on your network. If you're not sure whether this is available to you, ask your network administrator. MBONE is exclusively multicast, so you won't be able to use MBONE programs unless you have a multicast-enabled network. Netshow on the other hand will roll-over to unicast if multicast is not available, or if you have disabled it in your client.

The Netshow programs originate from a system which also runs IIS. One result of this is that HTTP streaming is not possible. This may prevent access to the programs from behind some firewalls.