[streaming] Re: Question about RTSP, HTTP and VLM

[Athlon2x]

Hi,

if i understand well, in the first case, you don't use any "video server",
just a http server. In the second case, you use a "video server".

So, if your network is enough fast, you can play your movie directly from
the http link.

Otherwise, you have to transcode your source and use a server.

With your first solution, you use more network resources, with the second
one, you use more computer resources.

Bye,
Antoine

PS : if your are on a local network, you should try UDP unicast.

On 3/24/06, Zeb <zeb at zebulon.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to setup a client/server solution in order to be able to
> watch a video file over the network using random access, and thanks to
> some help from the forum, I could experiment two solutions:
> - the simple solution was client-side: to use the --start-time option
> with VLC player, using the HTTP address of the video file.
> - I found another more complicated solution, but server-side: setting up
> with VLM a RTSP server, and "pilot" the streaming of the file using VLM
> commands play and seek through the telnet interface.
>
> Is there a reason to prefer one solution over another one ? The first
> one is easier, however, is RTSP better if there is a higher charge ? Is
> there a possibility to send commands using the GUI (for example, the
> time slider in the VLC GUI would automatically send seek commands) ?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
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