[streaming] Re: On internet

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004, Guillaume Pellerin wrote :
> Hi all !
> Bravo ! Vlc is killer app to encode, stream and read Mpeg-4 and more on 
> Lan, but I'd like to know if we can imagine vlc streaming as a unicast 
> server over the internet with 500 clients for instance... In fact, I 
> wonder if the server part can limit the number of clients.
> Thanks,
> Yomguy.
> 

Well, everything depends of the kind of access method you want to
implement, but that should be possible (keep in mind that 500 would
require quite a lot of bandwidth). The current developpment version
should be better able to produce low bandwidth streams than older ones,
as it allows to reduce the framerate while transcoding. 

However, I don't think VLC has ever been tested with so many client, and
some scalability issues may appear...

I don't think think there is an option to limit the amount of clients.
Not sure it would be that hard to implement though...

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Benjamin Pracht

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