Evan Hisey wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Anders Eriksson <aeriks...@fastmail.fm> 
> wrote:
>   
>> Forgot this part,
>>
>> ehi...@gmail.com said:
>>     
>>> Targeting Cell-phones is going to need some serious small stream or flash.
>>> The problem with something "encoding" to adapt to bandwidth is that the 
>>> image
>>> quality would have to fluctuate and that would be a terrible viewing
>>> experience: bigger pipe, better quality; smaller pipe, lower quality. This 
>>> is
>>> also a reason cell-phone video is both small and often crappy.
>>>       
>> It's not unusual to get 300kbps on 3G around here. I've encoded tv shows down
>> to 300kbps and regularly play them back on my cellphone with acceptable
>> experience (eg. you can read the subtitles). I hear Darwin is a good 
>> streaming
>> server and it does the bw adaptation etc. I'll have to wire it up and see 
>> what
>> happens.
>>
>> /A
>>
>>     
> There is really not much in the .fxd as far as pretty goes. It does
> keep show information and that can be accessed by another parser. If
> Darwin does that, then use it. As for security, well that is not
> really Freevo's strong suit. It does not have any major known security
> holes but it is not a hardened application. You will want to be sure
> you are not running it as root if you are letting it talk to the
> world.
>
> Evan
>   
I'd like to think that goes without saying but maybe not!

John

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