[vlc] Re: VideoLan Project

[Bill Eldridge]

Note that using something like an saa7134 card
lets you grab audio off the card, so you don't need
additional sound cards.

Benjamin PRACHT wrote:

> 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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