"Relaying" video streams

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Wed Nov 19 21:27:49 EST 2008


Seth Cohn wrote:
>> I think we sorta solved it. I only want one stream going out, and then
>> the "repeater" (PHP) will repeat it to multiple clients.
>>     
>
> I've sent Bruce the scripts that my coworker wrote, which use curl,
> ffmpeg, and ffserver, and certainly the same idea with VLC and other
> 'server' software could be substituted.
>
> I think the question is going to be stability, memory and cpu usage
> (per client, per stream, per feed, etc).
> The same basic principles will be used regardless, it's mostly a
> matter of what works best (best being maximized good/fast/cheap where
> the variables would be cpu/bandwidth/crashes/etc
>   

Given past experience, I believe you are correct!

> Bruce, sounds like you can experiment and see what works best in a
> real world setup, so maybe a good page documenting it for future open
> source webcammers?
>   


That's in my plan. And possibly a presentation.

I *hope* to get to this during the holiday season; its the only chance I
have to get the necessary testing done. (Seems "retirement" didn't free
up as much time as I thought it would.)

--Bruce


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