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 Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:13:10 up 2:20, 4 users, load average: 0.56, 0.90, 0.70
