[streaming] Re: Enterprise Ready Streaming On-Demand Server

[Pedro Tumusok]

Hi,

Maybe look at Anevia solutions, http://www.anevia.com they create products
based on VLC or something similar I belive.
This is not meant as advertising, but a pointer to a commercial solution
atleast.

Best Regards
Pedro Tumusok


On 10/5/06, Daniel Wells <daniel_wells at byu.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response.  My thoughts about the DRM is that there will
> always be an analog loophole.  We can modify VLC to restrict its
> capabilities for direct saving, couldn't we?  And if VLC was modified to
> require authentication to view our feeds, you would think it would be as
> good as any DRM.
>
> With regards to the VOD server.  My real question was how robust VLC is,
> i.e., how many simultaneous streams can one server provide (I realize that
> this depends on the hardware, but have any tests been done).  It seems
> feasible that a system could be developed that acted as a front end to VLC
> that managed all of the content and created and removed feeds as needed
> (using the telnet interface or similar).  It could even sit in front of
> several VLC servers to offer some sort of load monitoring and balancing.
>
> My other concern is that I do notice quite a bit a unreliability in the
> reproduction of the stream on the other end.  This could be a function of
> the type of media being streamed (not optimize for streaming).
>
> I guess my question is, am I wasting my time looking into building our own
> system using VLC as the client and server backend or is our time better
> spent focusing on third party solutions?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> - Daniel
>
>
> From: Dermot McGahon [mailto:dermot at dspsrv.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:20 AM
> To: vlan at byu.edu
> Subject: Re: [streaming] Enterprise Ready Streaming On-Demand Server
>
>
>
>
> Now there has been much talk about need for DRM to make some of our
> content providers happy. However when providing a "secure" stream, DRM seems
> irrelevant (correct me if I am wrong).
> It depends on the particulars of the concerns but it's likely that you're
> wrong. Content providers worry about peoples ability to re-use the content
> and a solution based on VLC will not prevent a user from saving and
> re-viewing the content as often as they like. Without DRM, that is.
>
>
> Now on the server side we need something robust enough to handle a large
> ammount of simultaneous on demand streams. It is preferred that it has the
> ability to scale out (load balance streams across multiple servers). I have
> not found anything that can do this without a great deal of custom
> development (VLC inlcuded).
>
> There are many commercial solutions that can do this. The reason they are
> commercial is that it is not straight-forward and they have invested
> millions to achieve what you are looking for.
>
> You didn't sign your post. It would be nice to know who I am corresponding
> with.
>
>
>
> Dermot.
>
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