[streaming] Increasing number of video streams on VLS

[Vince Phan]

Hi,

A typical 4Mb/s video streams on VLS using Pent IV 2.4GHz, 512MB RAM, and plenty of hadrdisk, running either Linux or Win with all possible optimization enabled ie cache, DMA, etc... would consumed ~10%-14% of the CPU resource available, even when using with MPEG-2 TS stream as input and output stream is also MPEG-2 TS.

Are there any command/configuration options that tells VLS that the input stream is already MPEG-2 TS stream, there should be no further processing required, and simply send the stream to the output pipe such that the CPU resource could be saved ?.  If this is possible, theoritically each 4MB/s video stream should only consume ~2-4% CPU resource and hence would increase the overall thruput to a minimum of  20 streams atleast.

VBrick can do at around 2-4% CPU resource per stream.
VLC can do at around 1-2% CPU resource per stream but only one stream at a time, to do multiple streams such as VLS would require piping control from a command center, etc... which is too complicated.

Can anyone suggest something?.   I am wondering around to find some stream server that can do this for the last 4 months and could find anything as close as to VLS except for the number of streams it can support.  There are some commercial one available but again ...money????

Thank you very much.

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