sabby said:@Ryunosuke
Did you use Theora to stream video ?
P.S. - I don't want to broadcast. Instead, unicasting and multicasting will be used to deliver contents.![]()
djmykey said:I also wanted to do the Icecast thing for my Project and ended up only downloading the binaries.. didn't know a bit about linux in those days... and was supa lazy :bleh: But now having tried out my hand at WMS servers I wanna just point out that if you are gonna stream video then check the specs needed for the streaming server. It needs a big a$$ rig. And best of luck with your Project![]()
Ryunosuke said:As far as the need for high spec rig goes, one would need it if the streaming media properties are set high, we streamed audio@128-192Kbps with dual channels and Video@30FPS@320x240.
Ryunosuke said:Well I don't think Sabby is doing it for his college project, correct me if I'm wrong Sabby. As for the rig specs, well I made my Dell Studio 15 laptop as the Streaming Server and the Source client too and there was nothing that proved to be a CPU-Memory hog, everything went smooth. The only perceptible difference was seen when it came to Live Streaming of Audio and Video as the data had to be processed and streamed in real-time all from a single machine and lack of designated Hardware encoder-decoders introduced lag but that was expected and we informed our peers about it while presenting it.
As far as the need for high spec rig goes, one would need it if the streaming media properties are set high, we streamed audio@128-192Kbps with dual channels and Video@30FPS@320x240.
Yes using the lib-theora codec package in Ezstream, we did stream couple NPTEL lectures across our college network in Labs and Hostels.
As for Uni and Multicasting, u can configure the domain range or IP range in the config files as to on which machines u want to stream content.
Besides that u can always rely on ACL for connection management.
For ur IPTV setup, I will too look into it, its just that my BSNL connection is still in bad shape so can't be very prompt in the matter and that's why the late responses earlier. Excuse me for those too.
sabby said:@djmykey,
we have some kick a$$ servers in our lab. Even we have a Sun streaming server. But the bad news is that they (SUN) won't give us the source code. VLC works but with many problems and pain. It requires a 1Gbps connection too. The only player which can play the contents delivered from it smoothly is to be bought from Sun and again no source. That way, we are paralyzed as developers.![]()
djmykey said:Damn that is serious bad luck.. but then your project would have been very easy isn't itIMO if you have your concepts clear but dont have a working thing to demo it then still you get marks. I got 85/100 where others didnt even reach 75 :bleh: and my Icecast wasnt even working :ashamed: