Re: Live streaming server

[Michael Butash]

Ah, different media.  I guess people do watch video stuff. You talking personal or business? Yes, done some with like digital signage, live video feeds, etc.  I'm not sure if any non-commercial encoders out there, but we used an appliance solution from Wowza that could at a mega corp customer of mine.  I think they were (sadly) still using a windoze or mac box for the encoding for the raw video feed, but we did that for town hall effect, throwing up on tv's around the various offices, etc.  We did with unicast and multicast internally across our backbone using various url's, dmz replication for external use, etc.  The wowza servers were linux appliances that seemed pretty nice for commercial, the guy running them was a linux guy too so he'd have told me if they sucked, and he was hacking on them to do other stuff with support from the company. Don't ever deal with video transport muxing, but vlc is likely your best open/free solution.  If it can attach to an RTSP feed, it might be able to serve it as well, but something needs to encode video (hardware/software) and feed it via some streaming protocol, native rtsp would be good. The video guy there did have some high-end adapters for his high-end video camera (long forgotten brands) that would supposedly network rtsp feed direct over wifi from the camera, and he did use it, but not sure how production it was.  Have something like wowza servers to consume that feed and absorb/reproduce via mcast/unicast to others.  Getting dumb wifi dongles, apple tv's, etc on an enterprise network, or talking internally to network resources was always an issue. If a camera *can* network, it *should* provide a video feed I'd think, and everything seems network enabled these days.  Expecting or asking the likes of sony or cannon to comprehend networking services can at times can likely be, daunting. There should be something out there, I know there are dnla transcoders that can absorb other streams (rtsp?), like fuppes and a few others I forget. -mb On 09/08/2015 03:59 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: Pulseaudio would work if I was doing sound, but I'm doing video and ironically no audio. Thanks though On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Michael Butash <mich...@butash.net> wrote: Pulseaudio can handle this to some extents without too much work, but careful, the networking and other encroaching processes will cause the real-time nature to be quirky.  I used to do this to some extent of success, using my ubuntu media server to stream audio from other hosts at it via multicast or unicast.  Tends to stutter by default as a habit, but at the time I *was* using it on a 400mhz ppc imac with ubuntu as the player source.  What could go wrong. Some audio chips are better than others too, ymmv there. Best thing is a dedicated box doing little else, but pulse with their rtp sink can do much of this, but you'll need to tweak with it some, giving it a real-time kernel, setting the priority of the devices, processes, setting pulse to do rt, etc. There are some people working around things like this on a raspberry pi with some of their spi audio chips that don't suck like the built-in ones.  Have to use real-time on those, but it works it seems.  Was going to do this for using pi's in audio distribution around my house as a pet project. Pulse is pretty cool for that, I use pavucontrol to mux streams with it.  You can do some interesting things patching like with jack actually if you toggle a few options, like exposing monitor sinks.  I have some security camers with 2 way audio on them, but use a horrid active-x based interface to use it.  I redirect the mic audio sink of the xp box pulse to a monitor of the output of my audio card, so I'll stream music that way around the house for giggles, and annoy my birds back. -mb On 09/08/2015 02:41 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: I am looking for a way to stream an RTSP stream to a bunch of people internally, so kind of a locally hosted live CDN.  I have looked into trying it with VLC but it seems to only stream files. Here are a couple of the base requiremnets that I need to meet: 1. locally hosted 2. CLI to add/remove stream or just control 3. a single connection to the original stream Does anyone know of a way to do this? --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

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