New wiki page on 'streaming media'

zenlord · 2010-07-27 16:51:51

Hi there,

I have created a new page on how to stream media over the network. It seemed like a good idea to centralize knowledge on this topic on 1 page, even if all it held were references to more concise wikipages.

The page is located at: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Streaming_media

1. This is my first wiki-page, so I'm sure I've done some things wrong;
2. I will be adding more information on some of the programs I've used, but of course, you are all invited to add content or discuss the page...

HTH!

Pank · 2010-07-27 17:32:16

Hi,
It is a really nice idea. Maybe the page ought to serve as a hub for other articles.

A couple of comments on sharing medias:

* I have not been very happy with upnp. I used it for a while when I had a Synology NAS, but the fact that it seemed to rely on some kind of index made it less attractive. Samba has treated me nice; it always works (as oppose to "real" Windows shares which is a drag to setup). I use samba for sharing videos and pictures to XMBC4Xbox.

* For streaming live audio output, i.e. what is playing *right now* on my laptop to my stero, I have found a combo of icecast, pulseaudio and gstream to work nice. For serving static audio files I use squeezeboxserver. Had I used a Sonos sound system I would have used Samba again.

* For PS3, which is a somewhat limited device, there is a nice java application that takes care of everything.

* What I really miss is some way to preserve metatags when downloading video podcasts. To me it does not matter much at the moment as xbmc does not support local rss feeds. . .

I could add some comments on some of the above if you think it fits into your article.

--Rasmus

zenlord · 2010-07-28 07:36:53

I don't like to think of it as 'my article' - especially because my experience is rather limited with this topic. I do think this is something that is hot at the moment, and that a lot of users will benefit from a good overview on this topic.

I will add all I know about this topic - I hope to do so in the next few days. Feel free to add more content.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-07-27 16:51:51

New wiki page on 'streaming media'

#2 2010-07-27 17:32:16

Re: New wiki page on 'streaming media'

#3 2010-07-28 07:36:53

Re: New wiki page on 'streaming media'

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