[streaming] Re: super high bandwidth streaming (30 MBps)

Mark Guertin guertin at brucemaudesign.com
Tue Jun 14 18:43:05 CEST 2005


Thanks James

It helps tons :)  I'll do some more research on the multi program  
mpeg2 streams you're talking about, that sounds a lot like what I'm  
trying to do here.

Mark

On 14-Jun-05, at 3:30 AM, James Yates wrote:

> Sounds to me like this should be possible, given fast enough  
> hardware. Also seems that a Multi Programme MPEG2 Transport stream  
> with either MP2 or H.264 streams would be the best route. I have a  
> 25Mbps Transport Stream taken straight from a DVB-T transmission  
> which VLC is quite happy to play allowing me to pick which  
> programme I want, so I think it is possible. Gigabit is more than  
> sufficient. At 30Mbps stream, 100Mb Network would be sufficient. I  
> ran 15 copies of VLC on my PC, each one streaming one 8Mbps TS  
> multicast on a Gigabit network without any problem, so this should  
> work fine.
>
>    Hope this helps
>
>       James
>
> Mark Guertin wrote:
>
>
>> Am I dreaming? Or do you think this might be possible .... the  
>> idea  is to stream out a single (large) stream and let the video  
>> wall  plugin pull it apart at client machines ... I'd be looking  
>> at trying  to get 5-6MBps per client x 5 clients... format is  
>> still in question,  but it might be something like Mpeg 4/H.264
>>
>> I'm not sure if this is something that I could do or not, I've  
>> done  some smaller tests and been pretty happy with the results,  
>> but not  sure if this is just way beyond what I should be able to  
>> accomplish!  (there is budget for hardware, dedicated giga  
>> networking, etc). Any  advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> I posted this to the forums as well ... so apologies in advance  
>> for  the cross posting, but wasn't sure which method would get  
>> better  results!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>
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