Apologies if this is slightly off topic but I have been googling on and off
since last year, found nothing and you lot are the best people I know to ask!
I'm looking for an open source video streaming server & browser based video
client for the video finish of a charity marathon I run.
I'm already using Helix Server for streaming the video although I could change
that if required. I'm using Real video for the stream and I guess it's the
having to ask users to download and install Real Player that's harsh. While Real
is very good at simultaneous multi-bitrate streaming it's anything but open and
I know plenty of people that refuse to install Real Player not to mention to
vulnerabilities!
It would be great to have the video window in the browser so the user didn't
have to download anything (e.g. VLC) but I think that just leaves Flash(!?)
which is also not open (although people are at least used to video in Flash).
The BIG requirement though is that the client can understand/replicate SMIL
information as the video is stored on the server as a single 1GB file and
different users are streamed different 20 second clips based on the time they
went over the finish line. Can Flash even do that?
Any help appreciated.
Dan
P.S. I'm using the term Open Source as a indication of the ideal, I'm a fan of
open source so I would like to use it with free software being the next choice
but as this is a charity marathon we have no money to throw at commercial software.
-
Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please
visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
