[vlc] Re: VideoLan Project

[Benjamin PRACHT]

This seems feasible to me. 

It would  be possible to  watch several streams  at the same  time, with
some limitations :

- Only one tv/radio stream at the same time with a single tv card

- I would advise to get a  tv card with an hardware encoder (other wise,
you'll have to make soft encoding, which is very cpu intensive)

- A dvd stream is about 6-9  Mbit/s, a MPEG2 tv stream about 5-7 Mbit/s,
a divx 1-2 Mbit/s.

- Most low  end switch do not support multicast.  That means that you'll
eiter have to unicast you stream (and then waste bandwidth) or broadcast
is on all you network.

- Provided you  are not doing any transcoding, you  server won't have to
be very powerfull. Something such as a P3 1 GHz should already allow you
to stream  several videoa at  the same time. (do  not forget to  use the
--minimize-threads option of vlc)

- Have a look  at vlc's http interface for easier  remote control of the
streaming vlc.

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