> > On Mon, January 26, 2009 15:48, Brian Chivers wrote: >> Has anyone tried streaming video across there network ? > > Yep, I do it all the time, however... > >> What I'd like to be able to do is stream TV >> shows that I've recorded in avi / xvid format to Windows workstations >> connected to projectors so >> staff can view fullscreen what they've requested to be recorded. > > ...I use MediaTomb to stream audio and video to my PS3. Streams > full HD video just fine, but may not do what you want. > > On the server side, you just point it at a directory full > of videos. It has a basic web interface for configuration. > > On the client side, you'd need something that supports UPNP > media servers. The PS3 just picks it up automatically, not > sure if media players on Windows will do the same, or whether > you can feed them an URL to it. >
A really simple solution, which would depend on network bandwidth but would be easy to setup, would be to consider just a simple shared directory. I run freevo on my linux machine at home which records shows onto the harddisk. This is shared out via samba and if I want to watch a program I just browse to the share and play it back using mplayer installed on windows. It would be a very "low tech" solution, it isn't really streaming but works quite well :) no idea if it would work well enough to scale up to lots of people steaming videos, that would depend on your network bandwidth and the servers ability to keep up. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
