"Relaying" video streams

Bill Mullen moon at lunarhub.com
Wed Nov 19 13:45:07 EST 2008


On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:38:05 -0500,
Bruce Dawson wrote:

> VirginSnow wrote:
> >> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:06:35 -0500
> >> From: Bruce Dawson     
> 
> >> We'd like to upload the video streams to a single server that
> >> multiple people can connect to and view them. This way, we're only
> >> sending one video stream up to the server, and the server can
> >> rebroadcast it to all the connected clients.    
> >
> > No matter where the server is, sending a fresh unicast copy to every
> > client will consume (ie, waste) bandwidth.
> 
> True, but the idea is to stream to multiple clients from an ISP that
> supports a high outgoing bandwidth, and to provide that stream from an
> ISP connection that doesn't (like DSL/broadband/...) The "high output"
> ISP would, in effect, become a "repeater".

Perhaps VLC is the right tool for the job?

http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo

>From a quick glance, it looks as if running VLC on said server would
allow you to have it connect from there to your source streams, and then
make those streams available to clients connecting to it from the WAN.

HTH!

-- 
Bill Mullen
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