IF you want to actually stream video, you could install RealProducer Basic from Real
Networks on either Windows or Linux (whichever the cam is hooked up to, Windows has a
pretty nice gui, and allows more video control that the software that came with my
cam, Linux version is command line), and RealServer on Linux. The "open
standards-based" RealServer Basic has a free 25 stream license.
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RealProducer has been certified on Redhat 6.2, specifically:
Processor:
- Audio encoding from file requires Pentium 120 with 32MB RAM.
- Video encoding from file requires Pentium II 200 MHz with 64MB RAM.
- For real-time recording from audio/video capture devices
to file or broadcast to RealServer, a Pentium III with 128MB RAM
is recommended.
Linux kernel version: 2.2
The following libraries are required:
- libNoVersion.so.1
- libc.so.6 (also known as glibc2)
- libdl.so.2
- libm.so.6
- ld-linux.so.2
Capture system: Video4Linux 1 (Video4Linux 2 is not supported)
Video capture board: Brooktree BT848-based video capture board (e.g.
Osprey 100, Hauppage WinTV). Other capture cards have not been certified.
Audio Capture: sound board with OSS drivers (ALSA drivers are not supported)
RealServer System Requirements
Processor Operating System
Intel Pentium Windows NT 4.0 or 2000 Workstation or
Server, Linux 2.2, glib c6, SCO 7.0.1, 7.1.0,
7.1.1, FreeBSD 3.0
HP PA-RISC 1.1 or higher HP-UX 11.x
Sun SPARC Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 2.8
SGI IRIX IRIX 6.2, 6.5
IBM RS/6000 PowerPC AIX 4.3
Memory Requirements
RealServer Basic and RealServer Plus require a minimum of 128 MB
of RAM to run optimally.
For RealServer Professional, 256 MB of memory is recommended.
Adding more RAM to a RealServer may increase the number of clients
the machine can serve simultaneously.
Sites that plan to serve 1000 or more simultaneous clients should
consider using 512 MB of RAM or more.
Storage Requirements
The RealServer 7.0 application requires about 8MB of storage plus storage for your
media content. Single rate media storage requirements can be calculated with the
following equation:
("bit rate of clip in kbps 'X' length of clip in seconds") divided by 8 = KB required
disk
space.
SureStream clips are more difficult to calculate as each clip has multiple embedded
data
rates. To figure out the storage requirements the above equation is used for every data
rate in the file. The data rates in the file can be found at encode time in
RealProducer's
view statistics panel.
Server Requirements
To make the best use of RealAudio and RealVideo, you must have a Web site and a
registered domain. RealServer 7.0 is compatible with any Web Server which supports
configurable MIME types, and has been tested with the following Web servers:
Apache 1.1.1
CERN HTTPD version 3.0
EMWC HTTPS version 0.96
HTTPD4 Mac
Mac HTTP
Microsoft Internet Information Server
NCSA HTTPD versions 1.3 or 1.4
Netscape Netsite and Netscape Enterprise Server
O'Reilly Website NT
Spinner version 1.0b12 through 1.0b15
Webstar and Webstar PS
