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DO I NEED A VIDEO PLAYER TO STREAM MOVIES SOFTWARE
DO I NEED A VIDEO PLAYER TO STREAM MOVIES WINDOWS

Employing wmv/asf encoding and an uplink bandwidth sync of 832 (circa real700K) It is more than likely that you will have to adjust the picture size to the bandwidth you have available. The more system CPU power available the better! As a minimum The method above will just about work with a video size of 384x288 streamed from VLC using a totally dedicated server at 800MHz cpu + 512 MB RAM with good hardware in good light.

DO I NEED A VIDEO PLAYER TO STREAM MOVIES SOFTWARE

“Pixel noise” generated by the camera and capture hardware can have an effect as well.Īn empirical method to determine this would be to run a test video across a LAN using the hardware and software and employing a network analyser to measure the bandwidth used.įollowing on from Note 1, The overall system capability will also determine how effectively the video stream can be encoded, compressed and streamed. It can vary quite a bit during the video sequence. It depends on how good the encoding/compression is and other factors like the amount of dynamic activity there is going on. How much bandwidth do I need for a given size of video stream?Ī very good question with no straight answer.

DO I NEED A VIDEO PLAYER TO STREAM MOVIES WINDOWS

I have successfully used this method of serving from MS Windows XPpro IIS 5.1 and Apache 2.2 and also Linux Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Apache 2.2

Mozilla Firefox via MS Media Player and Real Player.

Firefox via MPlayer and MS Media Player.

All it requires is the ability of a browser and its associated media player to be able to display the now universal ”.asf” stream which most can. It also does not need or employ any Java on the client or server machine. It does not need VLC to be at the client end. I have found this method to work well on LAN and WAN Now get a friend/other to test out the WAN links from another external location. OK? If not then go back and check it all out again. Now check out your LAN website from another machine on your LAN linking to (localstream1234.asx) The stream may take up to 30 secs to display. If this does not work… Obviously… Something is wrong! First check the, Main Menu selection, Tools dropdown item “Messages” for suggestions as to the cause of error and also re check all the above instructions/settings. VLC should open with a local display stream, which should display the stream and an overlay text displaying “streaming” for a few seconds.

You may need to alter the TTL value to allow more buffering, a value of 0 or 1 should be OK (no more than 12 should be necessary) as this increases delay from live Select “Windows asf/wmv” in the Custom dropdown selection box Select Source, Capture device for this example (and any necessary additional settings)Ĭheck or select/add http box LEAVE the ADDRESS FIELD BLANK!! Change the port number to 1234 (for this example) You might want to check out the terms ”metafile”, “redirector” and “.asx” for further informationįirstly create a text file (Eg in Notepad) and copy and paste the followingįirst check your video source (TV card, Video capture device, webcam etc) is working OK and playing through VLC OK using the Play option

The following method/technique uses a “metafile” or redirector. (other methods may work, I have not tested them all) The following technique only works (tested so far) using the Windows encapsulation method asf/wmv (and asf/div3 VLC 1.0.0) selected from the Custom menu in the VLC Streaming Settings window. This HowTo was written with previous versions in mind, so the descriptions of the VLC User Interface may differ slightly. You have sufficient upstream bandwidth to support the size of video stream (See #Note 1) I also assume you are using a NAT router with port forwarding for both the website and port to be used by the video stream.

Your firewall is not blocking any ports that you want to stream through.

If your website is for external viewing (internet), you have a static IP and are not behind a proxy server?.

Your website works OK and is on your own web server on the same machine as VLC?.

You have a web site? If not see #Appendix at the bottom of this “HowTo”.

First, I have to make some assumptions and you will have to do some checks.