This facility allows world-wide access to the principal sessions as they take place. It also provides access to video archives of finished sessions.
How this works
The IBS uses Real Networks client/server software to distribute audio and video over the public Internet. The client software distinguishes between audio and video streams and plays each appropriately. The server software streams the media files so the user does not have to wait for files to download and can access video or audio at any point.
Special encoding software digitizes and compresses the video or audio signal. It can compress video to as little as 20 kilobits/second and audio to 8.5 kilobits/second. This makes it feasible to access video and audio over the Internet using a PC equipped with a sound card and a modem.