[streaming] RTSP Streaming

[Mike Richmond]

Hello,

We are trying to setup VideoLan (www.videolan.org <http://www.videolan.org/>
) as a streaming video server on a linux box (RedHat Enterprise Linux ES).
We have both the VLC and VLS programs from VideoLan installed on the server,
and I am able to broadcast streams to specific IP address(es) with a command
like below:

vls -vv -d udp:10.3.82.58 file:/www/demo_video.mpg -ttl 12

 

This streams the file /www/demo_video.mpg to the IP 10.3.82.58, however the
user at this IP address has to have VLC already running and connected to the
video server waiting for the stream to be sent.  We need to setup something
more like this: http://www.videolan.org/doc/videolan-howto/en/ch11.html
(Video On Demand).  Video On Demand permits the user to connect to the video
server when they want, pause the video, and seek in both directions.
However the examples provided in the documentation just use apache to send
the video out over http.  We got this to work, but since it was going over
HTTP, the video was really choppy (http is not a good streaming video
protocol).

 

So what we need to do is figure out how to stream a video over RTSP using
VideoLan.  I have been unable to find an example so far in the
documentation, but have seen RTSP mentioned in terms of what VideoLan is
capable of doing.  Can anyone recommend a next step to set this up?

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

 

Mike

 

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