[streaming] Re: Multicast question

Psycho Ph degreane at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 21 19:52:00 CEST 2003


MMM I am interested with your "V4L-VOD Suite" Can I
have more information about It ????

That would allow alot of bandwidth saving over the
local network ..... I Believe its a serious issue when
talking about VideoLan as a solution to replace normal
RF Cabling !!!!!
Best Regards
F.B.
--- Stefan Seyfried <seife at gmane0305.slipkontur.de>
wrote:
> "Politi Roberto" <roberto.politi at csp.it> writes:
>  
> > Is it possible to prevent VLC or VLS to send data
> out of the network =
> > interface it there is nobody listening (no join to
> the multicast address)?
> 
> Hi,
> another solution could be to use something like my
> "v4l-VOD suite" i
> posted a few days back, probably you have to add
> some sort of "client
> counting", where you do some locking and counting of
> the clients that
> are "attached" to your server. If the last client
> exits, you stop the
> stream. Another solution is a
> "keep-alive-ping"-scheme, where every
> client sends a keepalive message every few seconds.
> If the server doesnt
> receive a ping for a given amount of time, he
> terminates the streamer.
> This is all easy to implement as a type of wrapper
> application, no need
> to change vls.
> 
> Good luck
> 
>       Stefan
> 
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> not a good idea
> -- 
>  Stefan Seyfried, seife at gmane0305.slipkontur.de
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