Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-20 Thread Frank DiPrete
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:22:15 -0500 From: Frank DiPrete [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: GNHLUG mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org function proxy_stream($flv_url) { $curl_handle=curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $flv_url );

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-20 Thread Frank DiPrete
Bruce Dawson wrote: Frank DiPrete wrote: Bruce Dawson wrote: We've got several web cams that people like to visit (www.milessmithfarm.net). However, they're chewing up bandwidth when more than one person at a time views them. Is anyone aware of a Linux based video re-broadcaster

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-20 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:36 PM, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://camstreams.com/ Interesting service, and looks like something I want - except it requires the broadcaster (me) to run the camstreams encoder on a Windows box. I don't mind encoding for such a service, but I don't

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:06:35 -0500 From: Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'd like to upload the video streams to a single server that multiple people can connect to and view them. This way, we're only sending one video stream up to the server, and the server

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Frank DiPrete
Bruce Dawson wrote: We've got several web cams that people like to visit (www.milessmithfarm.net). However, they're chewing up bandwidth when more than one person at a time views them. Is anyone aware of a Linux based video re-broadcaster (either software or a service)? We'd like to

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas Charron
I dunno, but you web cams right now aren't in a happy state. Apache default directories and the such. :-D On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got several web cams that people like to visit (www.milessmithfarm.net). However, they're chewing up

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:22:15 -0500 From: Frank DiPrete [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: GNHLUG mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org function proxy_stream($flv_url) { $curl_handle=curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $flv_url );

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got several web cams that people like to visit (www.milessmithfarm.net). However, they're chewing up bandwidth when more than one person at a time views them. Is anyone aware of a Linux based video re-broadcaster

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. Just multicast, for that matter. The problem is that effectively zero public routers forward multicast datagrams ... FYI, I did find some resources on this: Multicast over TCP/IP HOWTO (1998)

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2008-11-19 8:22 AM, Frank DiPrete wrote: I've used Darwin and it works well for streaming stored files on request - as long as they are 3gp's or mp4 mov's. I think there's _some_ way to do it, e.g. from the FAQ: Q. Can I configure DSS to stream live .mp4, .3gp, or .mov streams to simulate

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:38:05 -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: VirginSnow wrote: Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:06:35 -0500 From: Bruce Dawson We'd like to upload the video streams to a single server that multiple people can connect to and view them. This way, we're only sending one video

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
Frank DiPrete wrote: Bruce Dawson wrote: We've got several web cams that people like to visit (www.milessmithfarm.net). However, they're chewing up bandwidth when more than one person at a time views them. Is anyone aware of a Linux based video re-broadcaster (either software or a

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
Bill Mullen wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:38:05 -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote: VirginSnow wrote: Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:06:35 -0500 From: Bruce Dawson We'd like to upload the video streams to a single server that multiple people can connect to and view them. This

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
Ben Scott wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. Just multicast, for that matter. The problem is that effectively zero public routers forward multicast datagrams ... FYI, I did find some resources on this: Multicast over TCP/IP HOWTO

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
Thomas Charron wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got several web cams that people like to visit (www.milessmithfarm.net). However, they're chewing up bandwidth when more than one person at a time views them. Is anyone aware of a Linux

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
Thomas Charron wrote: I dunno, but you web cams right now aren't in a happy state. Apache default directories and the such. :-D Right. I just shutdown the Apache proxies so we could have some bandwidth. Seems someone jumps on the cameras within minutes of setting up the proxies. It

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Seth Cohn
I think we sorta solved it. I only want one stream going out, and then the repeater (PHP) will repeat it to multiple clients. I've sent Bruce the scripts that my coworker wrote, which use curl, ffmpeg, and ffserver, and certainly the same idea with VLC and other 'server' software could be

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Thomas Charron
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron wrote: I dunno, but you web cams right now aren't in a happy state. Apache default directories and the such. :-D Right. I just shutdown the Apache proxies so we could have some bandwidth. Seems someone

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
Seth Cohn wrote: I think we sorta solved it. I only want one stream going out, and then the repeater (PHP) will repeat it to multiple clients. I've sent Bruce the scripts that my coworker wrote, which use curl, ffmpeg, and ffserver, and certainly the same idea with VLC and other

Relaying video streams

2008-11-18 Thread Bruce Dawson
We've got several web cams that people like to visit (www.milessmithfarm.net). However, they're chewing up bandwidth when more than one person at a time views them. Is anyone aware of a Linux based video re-broadcaster (either software or a service)? We'd like to upload the video streams to a

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-18 Thread Seth Cohn
I know someone at work who did just this sort of thing recently. I'll get details and get back to you. On 11/18/08, Bruce Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got several web cams that people like to visit (www.milessmithfarm.net). However, they're chewing up bandwidth when more than one

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2008-11-18 8:06 PM, Bruce Dawson wrote: Is anyone aware of a Linux based video re-broadcaster (either software or a service)? I've heard good things about the Darwin Streaming Server from Apple, but haven't tried it out myself yet: http://dss.macosforge.org/post/40/ Whichever solution

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whichever solution you get working would make for a lovely HOWTO. Or meeting presenting topic. ;-) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-18 Thread Seth Cohn
I know someone at work who did just this sort of thing recently. I'll get details and get back to you. Summary: If the cameras are USB connected to a server then the best and quickest option is to use an open source alternative to the Flash Media Streaming Server. My research pointed to Red

Re: Relaying video streams

2008-11-18 Thread Ben Scott
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: isn't this the sort of application that IPv4 multicast + SIP were designed to solve? Sure. Just multicast, for that matter. The problem is that effectively zero public routers forward multicast datagrams, so you might as well just