A method and system for sending a multimedia stream in IP multicast
networks are provided. IGMP report data is collected by a plurality of
routers. The routers report the IGMP report data to a netflow collection
server. The netflow collection server collates the IGMP report data. The
collated IGMP report data is forwarded to an encoder coordinator. The
encoder coordinator adaptively computes an encoding rate of the
multimedia stream. The encoded multimedia stream is sent to a plurality
of receivers at the encoding rate.