Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/19/18 9:13 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/19/18 7:59 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Guys, I'm surprised that this thing is so complicated to design. If I >> were to do it, I'd just have the server add a timestamp tag to each >> packet, indicating that "this packet is to be played at 09:34:27 G

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/19/18 7:59 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Guys, I'm surprised that this thing is so complicated to design. If I were to do it, I'd just have the server add a timestamp tag to each packet, indicating that "this packet is to be played at 09:34:27 GMT", and send enough packets ahead of time to cli

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/19/18 7:37 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Btw, I don't see LMS packaged for Fedora in the standard repositories (nor rpmfusion). I don't mind using the source (it's mostly Perl, anyway), but just to check --- is it packaged in any of the repos I'm unaware of? I didn't find it packaged anywher

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-19 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:34:29 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/18/18 6:04 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > You'd need to be broadcasting a stream, and have players that that > > simply replay the current live stream, to get past that hurdle. As > > well as for being able to handle what one speaker sy

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-19 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 16:50:33 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/17/18 4:27 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > I'm interested in your suggestions/experience regarding multimedia > > tools for streaming audio and possibly also video via LAN (mostly > > WiFi), played back on multiple client machines, with

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/18/18 6:04 PM, Tim via users wrote: You'd need to be broadcasting a stream, and have players that that simply replay the current live stream, to get past that hurdle. As well as for being able to handle what one speaker system does when it recovers from a signal hiccup. That's what Logit

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-18 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 18 December 2018, Rick Stevens sent: > Note that the "standard" packetizing protocols will exhibit these > synchronization issues even on a LAN because you have no control over > the clients' playlist request timings due to the inherent > asynchronous, transaction-oriented na

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/18/18 12:52 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: On 12/18/18 12:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: LMS has very tight synchronization.  I have a client playing on the stereo and one on my laptop.  If I stand between the rooms, there is no perceptible difference in the timing. Are you speaking of Logitech Medi

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/18/18 12:11 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 12/17/18 5:13 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: >> Most streaming platforms now use quasi-HTTP connections to packetize the >> stream content (HLS, HDS, MPEG-Dash, et al.). As clients connect, >> they're given a "playlist" of these packets. Depending on the serve

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/17/18 5:13 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Most streaming platforms now use quasi-HTTP connections to packetize the stream content (HLS, HDS, MPEG-Dash, et al.). As clients connect, they're given a "playlist" of these packets. Depending on the server and how it's set up, the server may have "n" "cu

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/17/18 4:27 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > Huh, it's been a while... :-) > > I'm interested in your suggestions/experience regarding multimedia > tools for streaming audio and possibly also video via LAN (mostly WiFi), > played back on multiple client machines, with lit

Re: Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/17/18 4:27 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: I'm interested in your suggestions/experience regarding multimedia tools for streaming audio and possibly also video via LAN (mostly WiFi), played back on multiple client machines, with little to no latency. You know --- say I want to play some music o

Software for streaming audio or video over LAN

2018-12-17 Thread Marko Vojinovic
Hello everybody, Huh, it's been a while... :-) I'm interested in your suggestions/experience regarding multimedia tools for streaming audio and possibly also video via LAN (mostly WiFi), played back on multiple client machines, with little to no latency. You know --- say I want to play some mus