On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:24:46AM +0300, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > Are there any mature FOSS solutions for streaming video content?
VLC. > Pros/Cons visa vi Microsoft and REAL Video solutions. Real with IIS is probably the best from a staffingpoint of view. You buy their package and get well tested, easy to use systems with good bandwidth utilization. Note that well tested is not the same thing as well maintianed, people may spot bugs, but their schedule of fixing them may not agree with yours. There are lots of FOSS solutions from your needs, but they range from dismal to wonderful depending upon how much expertise the people using them have. Considering the cost of upload bandwidth (real bandwith, not the high latency, get it when you can stuff people use at home), paying a real expert to design and implement your system will be well worth the money. > Preferably I am looking for a solution that will play in Windows Media Player > thereby not requiring most users to install new software. That's a problem in itself. Windows media player works well in I.E., but not always well in FireFox. What's your primary concern is the codec (compression software) you use. The better the compression, the faster the computer and the newer the software has to be to play it. It benefits you by costing less to store and transfer. You might also look at technologies like Democracy TV. It uses Bit Torrent to deliver your "channel" in background, sort of video Podcasting without a pod. Other technologies such as "Joots" may become useful, but in beta testing they have not. They work, but due to the low number of users, it is too CPU and bandwidth heavy for any real useage. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
