[streaming] Re: Quick query

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Neil Bertram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I downloaded a version of VLC about a month ago to give it a go, since 
> it seemed like a really cool idea, but I wasn't quite sure if it was 
> what I was looking for. I just thought maybe I should ask to clarify...
> 
> I have a VIA Epia based media computer (very low powered and not very 
> good at anything to do with DVD or MPEG4 playback), and was wondering if 
> VideoLAN could be used to decode a compressed file, re-encode it as a 
> simpler format, and stream over a 100mbit LAN so that the Epia might be 
> able to handle the playback on a TV? Is this what transcoding is? From 
> my tests of the non-CVS version, it seemed to just stream in the 
> original format, and the Epia still couldn't keep up without skipping 
> frames.

Transcoding can be used to lower the bitrate, quality, and format of the 
original video file. In VLC CVS there is now support for MPEG2/4, etc. 
transcoding.

Another tool is SAMPEG 
http://rachmaninoff.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/sampeg/

And of course there are more tools like this in the world ;-)

-- 
Kind greetings,

Jean-Paul Saman

Software Architect

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