On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Anders Eriksson <aeriks...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > ehi...@gmail.com said: >> Flowplayer looks like a seriously out of scope use for freevo. You should be >> able to the VLC web plugin to stream videos from the freevo web interface >> already. > Going the VLC route requires browser-side plugins, right? The target here is > to > be able to give my non-geek parents access to my rig over the web, and my own > occational use from e.g. company w2k PCs. Requiring plugins would be a > barrier. > >> I personally don't have a need for it so can not help you setting it >> up. > > Fair enough. > -Anders > > PS Does the VLC route provide automatic bandwidth adaptations? I.e. it > automatically encodes the video to max out the available bw. That _would_ be > usefull in another target usage I have, streaming to cell-phones. > A couple of points come to mind after reading this. Your target attempts. If you are wanting video over the web, then I would really look at another project for that and run a dedicated webserver for it. The first thing that comes to mind is to use mplayer to post process your videos to swf (flash), kinda like what youtube does, then have an .sap page on a secured webserver that presents a list of a available videos. Click on the link it opens a page with the embedded flash.
Targeting Cell-phones is going to need some serious small stream or flash. The problem with something "encoding" to adapt to bandwidth is that the image quality would have to fluctuate and that would be a terrible viewing experience: bigger pipe, better quality; smaller pipe, lower quality. This is also a reason cell-phone video is both small and often crappy. Evan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
