I need to build a web site that can stream an hour of live video every day to hundreds, possibly thousands of users. Some questions:<br><br>1. I think I saw an option in the HOW-TO to capture live video from an attached device (on Linux) and serve it over HTTP. Is my understanding correct?<br>
<br>2. Assuming the answer to 1. is YES then is the http server inside VLC multithreaded, or do I have run multiple processes?<br><br>3. In either case, how can I estimate the number of CPU cores and the bandwidth I would need? I understand that bandwidth is a function of video quality and size. The user has to be able to make one person's facial expressions well. That's the only requirement.<br>
<br>4. Is multicast a real option on the internet? I thought that firewalls and routers drop it.<br><br>5. In terms of interfacing a camera to the Linux box, I cannot connect the camera using firewire because it is in a different room. Would it be possible to use an IP camera? It has an embedded HTTP server which only supports 3-4 simultaneous users. Would it be possible (and sensible) to use VLC to read that output and stream it again? Or are there wireless cameras that VLC could work with?<br>
<br>Thanks for any help.<br>Akiva<br>