Hi Dan,
Apple's Darwin Streaming Server might do the trick for you. It does
MPEG-4, MPEG-4 H.264/AVC etc. streaming and supports SMIL files. It's
open source (though those file formats are patented).
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html
We use it to serve BBC content from our repository under our
educational deposit agreement. I can't say that it's the most feature-
complete piece of software in the world but it does the job, and
there's a decent user community if you get stuck with anything.
Client-side, things get a bit tricky, since the QuickTime plugin is
basically mince. It's quite pernickety about network issues (such as
proxy configurations not being inherited from the OS on Windows), but
again it does the job...
Though at least the transport would be in a relatively standard format
(RTSP/RTP), rather than nasty Real guff.
Simon's suggestion of Flash on the client side might make a nice
combination with DSS, though we've only ever used Flash as an HTTP
(progressive download) front-end - not true streaming - so I can't say
if/how well the combination would work.
Graeme
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On 17 Feb 2008, at 22:55, simon wrote:
Hello,
Flash appears to say yes to SMIL:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000589.html
though flash has caused me problems by only implementing limited
subsets of other standard formats (eg limited html tags in flash
textareas) so I wouldn't like to say for sure the flash's
understanding of SMIL would do what you want. I've never used SMIL +
flash.
And the best bet I think for an open source flash streaming server
for flv video format is still currently Red5 which hasn't made a 1.0
version yet: http://osflash.org/red5
If you use MP4 container with h264/aac as your flash video format
(from memory: player 9,0,115,0 onwards), you may have more options
for your server, it's on my list to check this but so far I haven't
had time.
S.
On Feb 17, 2008 10:18 PM, Dogsbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Apologies if this is slightly off topic but I have been googling on
and off
since last year, found nothing and you lot are the best people I
know to ask!
I'm looking for an open source video streaming server & browser
based video
client for the video finish of a charity marathon I run.
I'm already using Helix Server for streaming the video although I
could change
that if required. I'm using Real video for the stream and I guess
it's the
having to ask users to download and install Real Player that's
harsh. While Real
is very good at simultaneous multi-bitrate streaming it's anything
but open and
I know plenty of people that refuse to install Real Player not to
mention to
vulnerabilities!
It would be great to have the video window in the browser so the
user didn't
have to download anything (e.g. VLC) but I think that just leaves
Flash(!?)
which is also not open (although people are at least used to video
in Flash).
The BIG requirement though is that the client can understand/
replicate SMIL
information as the video is stored on the server as a single 1GB
file and
different users are streamed different 20 second clips based on the
time they
went over the finish line. Can Flash even do that?
Any help appreciated.
Dan
P.S. I'm using the term Open Source as a indication of the ideal,
I'm a fan of
open source so I would like to use it with free software being the
next choice
but as this is a charity marathon we have no money to throw at
commercial software.
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