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

deon stoltz deon at cyberconn.co.za
Tue Jun 14 21:37:23 CEST 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:30 +0100, 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

I am curios. What is your CPU speed and memory setup to support this.
Deon

> 
> 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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> James Yates
> Software Systems Engineer
> Packet Vision Ltd
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> 
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