Stephen Rowles wrote:
>> On Mon, January 26, 2009 15:48, Brian Chivers wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone tried streaming video across there network ?
>>>
>> Yep, I do it all the time, however...
>>
>>
>>> What I'd like to be able to do is stream TV
>>> shows that I've recorded in avi / xvid format to Windows workstations
>>> connected to projectors so
>>> staff can view fullscreen what they've requested to be recorded.
>>>
>> ...I use MediaTomb to stream audio and video to my PS3. Streams
>> full HD video just fine, but may not do what you want.
>>
>> On the server side, you just point it at a directory full
>> of videos. It has a basic web interface for configuration.
>>
>> On the client side, you'd need something that supports UPNP
>> media servers. The PS3 just picks it up automatically, not
>> sure if media players on Windows will do the same, or whether
>> you can feed them an URL to it.
>>
>>
>
> A really simple solution, which would depend on network bandwidth but
> would be easy to setup, would be to consider just a simple shared
> directory.
>
> I run freevo on my linux machine at home which records shows onto the
> harddisk. This is shared out via samba and if I want to watch a program I
> just browse to the share and play it back using mplayer installed on
> windows.
>
> It would be a very "low tech" solution, it isn't really streaming but
> works quite well :) no idea if it would work well enough to scale up to
> lots of people steaming videos, that would depend on your network
> bandwidth and the servers ability to keep up.
>
>
>
Thanks for the pointers.
I'm having a play with the different options at the mo to see what fits
what I'm trying to achieve :-)
Brian
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