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jack.mitchell

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From: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 156

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Compress and Stream Video

Hi everyone,

Is there a simple way to compress and stream video over the internet on the fly? Basically I have a server running at home and while I'm working in far distant lands over the summer I would like to watch all my tv and movies that I have stored on it. Therefore I only have ssh to work with but I have most of the essential web services set up. Some of the videos I have are HD and are far too bandwidth heavy to stream in real time, I have ~100Kb/s to play with. Just a point in the right direction would be enough, I don't need a full tutorial. I'm sure there must be some fantastic programs out there that can do this, it seems like it would be a common enough thing to want!

TIA!

EDIT: at the moment I am streaming over FTP using mplayer like this: wget ftp://ipaddress/something.avi -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 - if I could somehow compress on the fly automatically that would be a perfectly viable option...

EDIT2: Coherence looks promising. http://coherence.beebits.net/

Last edited by jack.mitchell (2010-06-28 18:49:02)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Compress and Stream Video

You can look into ffserver from FFmpeg.