Hi, I am considering a Just-For-Fun Video On Demand Project and am wondering
if I can jump start it by pinging your guys first. The environment is Server would be a Linux box, running Apache behind a best case 198 K SDSL line. The movie would .... say a training lecture....imagine a garage, a white board, a camcorder and me scribilling whatever I know about Soccer.... So where do I go from here ? I got an old camcorder, that I can connect to my VCR or TV. If I was to connect this to my computer, would I need some kind of an adapter that speaks compsite TV signals and digitizes the analog signals and then writes the bits to a file. What are these called, Frame Grabber/Video Capture Card? How about the software for these Frame Grabbers. Recall I'm on Linux, and many of these card vendors don't know how to spell Linux... I see many file formats, which format do I use? I read something about MPEG 2 with PS and TS . How about RAM files (RealAudio) and ... I need help sorting these out... Ok...so now I have recorded something and created a file on the disk, got my web pages all setup and I'm ready to serve. So now comes invokation of some streaming server to push the content of the file out to client. I guess that would be a mod_perl or CGI, so I still need some program. What do I use for that. Can I just use HTTP to serve the file. I also read about Vido On Demand (which I think is unicast) and how bandwidth hungry it is but most appealing to clients, vs multi-casting vs broadcasting. But I think I need the Video On Demand type....so would the SDSL line do? I think that is what the streaming will solve ... right....ie one does not need to have 20 Mbits/sec connection to get some work done.... Please let me know if I should post this to some other (more) relevant group. Thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Medi Montaseri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Distributed Systems Engineer HTTP://www.CyberShell.com CyberShell Engineering -------------------------------------------------------------------------
