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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding RE: [V4L] 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: [V4L] 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
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