[streaming] Re: RTSP Streaming

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004, Mike Richmond wrote :
> 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?
> 

You can have a look at the vlm.txt file in the doc directory of the
source tree.

-- 
BigBen

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