[streaming] Switching streaming inputs on-the-fly?

[David Geirsson]

Hi all,

First of all, I'm not subscribed to the list, so please CC me on
replies.

I've been tasked with setting up video streaming for a small event (a
high school lego robotics competition). There will be two people with DV
cams filming, and this will be available online as a live stream. Of
course, my first idea was to use vlc for this.

The first problem I see is that we need to be able to switch between the
two cameras on the fly (without the clients noticing). Can vlc do this
for me? If I could switch with the telnet interface for example, that
would be good - I'd just script a little frontend for that.

Of course, any other advice would be appreciated also - I have no
experience with video streaming. I expect we'll use WMV2 for the video
codec, because the stream needs to play on windows installs without
needing extra codecs. Are there any other codecs that vlc supports that
windows media player can play by default? How do they perform at low
bitrates (we'll probably offer two or three bitrate versions of the
stream)?

Regards,

-- 
David Steinn Geirsson
Reykjavik, Iceland
+354 8696608
davidgeirs at gmail.com

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