"Relaying" video streams

[Bruce Dawson]

Bill Mullen wrote:
> 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!
>
>   
I've looked at VLC and VLM, but can't tell if those will do what I want.
I suspect it will stream without a problem, but I can't determine if it
will allow multiple clients to attach to the same stream.

--Bruce