RealServer software

• Product of RealNetworks
• Converts NTSC signal into digital form
• Streams this digitized signal to RealPlayer clients
• We purchased 50 simultaneous user license

Commodity server hardware

• Pentium II-450
• 128 MB RAM
• Two 18 GB disk drives
• Video capture card
  

Linux operating system

• Open source
• Freely available
• We used Red Hat distribution