[streaming] Re: Streaming over http - confused but learning

[Danislav Kostov]

Hi Nav!
The first choice is to just install a http server like apache and upload 
your clips in avi/divx format.
After that the clients can use VLC to see the clips. (my opinion is that VLC 
is very good at this).
So: if you upload your files at /news/2004-02-08/1800.avi in your web 
server,
the client sould use VLC and 'File -> Open Network Stream -> ' and type 
http://yourserver.com/news/2004-02-08/1800.avi
The starting will take time of course but it depends on the connection speed 
of both your PC and clients.
The second choice is to use VLC as a streaming server which will confuse you 
a little (it's a sort of complicated).
The VLC team (they are verrry goood) implemented test rtsp server but you 
have to configure it via telnet.
BUT, if your friends are behind a firewall or router that doesn't allow/pass 
rtsp this will not work.
So by my personal opinion use http server and VLC as a client.


Greetings from Sofia,
Dani

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <navnits at citytv.com>
To: <streaming at videolan.org>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:59 AM
Subject: [streaming] Streaming over http - confused but learning


> Hello there,
> My name is Nav from Toronto Canada.  I work in a news station here in
> Toronto .  What I want to be able to do is to record our newscast at home 
> on
> my pc through a pvr card.  I then want to be able to give access to that 
> or
> several of these archived shows through the internet.  I want reporters 
> and
> editors to be able to see these archived shows through the internet /http.
> This way a reporter can go to any computer with internet explorer and 
> watch
> a stream of the show from the day before in low res. I dont think more 
> than
> 2-4 people will
> watch these streams in a day.   So far i have figured out that  I will get 
> a
> pvr card  like pvr-150 or 250 and record the show onto the pc.  I can also
> use snapstream software to autmatically encode the files to divx.   Now 
> what
> i dont know is how to stream the archived show on demand to people over 
> the
> internet.  I have a domain name i can use and plan to use my pc as the
> server......but what next.  How do i use videolan to do this.   I have 
> just
> started to read the docs from videolan but it is a but confusing.  My
> strength is more video editing and  and now i am just getting into this so 
> i
> may
> be able to aquire the position of Digital asset manager at the station.
> any help is appreciated .
>
>                  Nav Sharma
> http://www.pulse24.com
>
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