Hi Jodie - I am excited by your review and downloaded ffmpeg/ffserver. What audio & video input devices do you recommend? Joe Briggs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 4/14/01, 5:24:02 PM, "Jodie Reynolds" <jodier333@xxxxxxxx> wrote regarding RE: Streaming bttv webcam? How?: > ffserver in the ffmpeg package does a fine job at sending Real Video, Motion > JPEG, h.263, MPEG1, AC/3, MPEG audio layer 2, etc. It's simply the fastest, > most solid video encoder I've _ever_ seen run on any platform, anywhere. > The DivX/ASF streaming doesn't work for me (the author notes it's not > finished), and my plan is to send him an email today offering to help with > that. It's command-line based (CHEER! Can you say embedded streaming > appliance?) at present, and on my local gigaether, I can run 2000 > mixed-platform RV clients from a single RH 6.2 933 PIII with 256M. Which is > also encoding two different streams from two video cards.(!) If that's not > enough, it offers a "Master/Slave" option. So you can run the server on a > high-bandwidth machine and stream a single connection from a slave (say from > a DSL remote capture to a DS3 client server), ala an MS Encoder/Media Server > arrangement. > At present, it appears to support http protocol, internally, AWESOMELY well. > I'd also offer to add multicast support to SDR and transport over RTP/RTSP > with OpenDivX SR-RTP and Congestion Manager. > The machine next to me has been streaming RV to two machines for 42hrs, > without X running, and with a load average of 0.90... Let's see RV Server > claim that! > The author points out that he would like to put a GUI on it. I think a web > gui internally would be neat, but would like to see him keep it light and > fast like it is, and remotely manageable. With its internal webserver, it > crys out for a simple web configuration tool (again, thinking embedded > appliance) that can be run from anywhere. > This is DEFINITELY a package to keep your eye on for streaming video. > --- Jodie Reynolds > Chief Technology Officer > Interact Devices, Inc. > (Now that I find (thank you James) the sourceforge page, I see he > acknowledges the features I'd like to see added. Nifty! Now to go > volunteer....) > >> > Subject: Re: Streaming bttv webcam? How? > Hi Chris, > We can suggest : > http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ > But last I saw it, it was only sending 1 minutes worth, then you had to > reload:(. > JES > On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > I'd like to have the ability to stream my X10 camera to the net, and I > > don't mean jpeg snapshots. My first try was RealProducer/RealServer, but > > those products don't seem to want to work on recent versions of Red Hat. > > The camera (and the TV tuner) are both working correctly as far as > > displaying on the screen. I just need that extra bit of knowhow to > > figure out how to stream it live. Ideas appreciated, maybe there's a > > better list to ask? > > Chris Kloiber > -- > James B. MacLean macleajb@xxxxxxxxxxx > Department of Education http://www.ednet.ns.ca/~macleajb > Nova Scotia, Canada > B3M 4B2 > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
