[streaming] Re: unclas - VLS streaming rate

[Bill Eldridge]

Tristan Leteurtre wrote:

>Hello,
>
>On Tue, Jul 15, 2003, Bennett, Ian MR 3 wrote:
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>
>>	One question though....Can I "rate limit" the multicast streams from
>>VLS or will the mpeg file I am using need to be resampled?? I'm not sure of
>>the mechanics (like how VLS determines the streaming rate) so am having
>>trouble getting my head around this.
>>    
>>
>
>VLS follows the bitrate of the file. You won't be able to moderate it
>(this feature would be a kind of 'transcoding'). So if you want to do
>that, you have to work on the file before.
>
>  
>
Such as piping from ffmpeg, which last I looked required making a fifo 
and making a trivial
change to vls to not do a seek on a fifo, though if you're talking about 
having ffmpeg start
when VLS says start, you'll need some way of having VLS start and fork 
ffmpeg.
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