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<p class=MsoNormal>I posted the following question on the forums. It was
suggested that I submit to the mailing list.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=postbody>I have been a big fan of VLC for years
and have always recieved good advice here. </span><br>
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<span class=postbody>The company I work for is currently in the process of
replacing our current cable tv offering with an IP television offering. We are
going to use third party boxes to encode and stream the live feeds (to H.264
AVS I believe). </span><br>
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<span class=postbody>In addition to this we want to add a Media on Demand
system. I have been looking at different ways to accomplish this and I keep
coming back to VLC. My immediate concern is scalability (we have close to
50,000 potential users). </span><br>
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<span class=postbody>I thought I would post some of the basic requirements here
and get the advice from the community. I'll start with what is expected from
the end user's perspective. </span><br>
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<span class=postbody>The end user will preferably have a single location (menu)
where he can view both the available live TV feeds and the content on demand.
This location should be accesible from both a PC/Mac/Linux and a set top box
(connected to a television). In my opinion it might make sense to use a
modified version of VLC for this. The content list provided to the user should
be customized for that particular user (determined by some sort of
authentication). The available feeds might be packaged as RSS. Now it is
apparant that some sort of management system will need to be in place to sit
between the streaming server and the clients. This management system will
conatain all the eligibilty rules for each piece of media and will most likely
present the customized list of content to the end user's client. </span><br>
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<span class=postbody>Now there has been much talk about need for DRM to make
some of our content providers happy. However when providing a
"secure" stream, DRM seems irrelevant (correct me if I am wrong). </span><br>
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<span class=postbody>Now on the server side we need something robust enough to
handle a large ammount of simultaneous on demand streams. It is preferred that
it has the ability to scale out (load balance streams across multiple servers).
I have not found anything that can do this without a great deal of custom
development (VLC inlcuded). </span><br>
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<span class=postbody>Well this is the extremely high level overview. I am
interested to see ya'll opionions as to where VLC might fit in as a solution. </span><br>
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<span class=postbody>Thanks for your time.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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