Re: Video-Streaming-Server

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On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 15:25, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 00:10, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > 
> > > VidoLan Server sounds like the obvious choice, although VideoLan Client
> > > has grown some serving capability too.
> > 
> > I'm actually talking about VideoOnDemand. Will VLS work then?
> 
> It should, up to what your hardware can support.

I wonder how beefy the box has to be then to server like comcast?

> >  What's the limitation in
> > terms of Bandwidth/network latency/HD speed etc...???
> 
> If everyone on the LAN watches the same thing you can
> multicast.  If you send something different to each it will
> add up quickly.  There is some documentation here:
> http://www.videolan.org/doc/

Thanks for the link. VLC may be a much better alternative compared to
Mythtv in that sense. (If not mistaken, MythTV/Freevo is more towards
PVR right?)

> 
> > I'm not even sure how to begin visualising the network infrastructure to
> > support this. I mean, if it's for 1-5 users, OK.. what about if it's
> > like a _big_ scale initiative? What does the _big_ ppl use?
> 
> I have service from Comcast that actually works but I have no
> idea how they do it.

Well.. Wish I know too..
:-(
> 
> ---
>   Les Mikesell
>    les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

PS : Can you  change your sig to "-- "(notice the space) I asked about
this in Evolution-list (about sig stripping) and they were it's based on
RFC ???? that anything after "-- " is stripped off in the reply.

-- 
Ow Mun Heng
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