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Audio/Video Streaming for Events
Neil Waldhauer:
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on September 19, 2014, 04:24:30 am ---I ran the testsuite till I had to kill it to go to bed, transfered about 1/2 a GB over the localhost with a couple of MD5 sum failures. Never looked at the actual image but usually these are small errors that aren't visible.
The documentation is here https://ffmpeg.org/ffserver.html, would have to decide on a format but it's capable of most any from Flash to webm for using a browser or much more if using MPlayer or VLC or other media players on other OSes.
The big thing is its a unixy app, so all done with command line and configuration file. Ideally would be a front end to make it easy.
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I found the documentation not useful, because FFServer is only a small part of the total solution. I'll defer to the people now on board for figuring out video sharing to figure out the system.
Martin Iturbide:
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on September 19, 2014, 04:24:30 am ---Does the Hotel Internet allow uploading large amounts of data? 100 users watching a 1 MB stream is 100 MBs. Of course the stream can be tuned including using better codecs, connections and bandwidth limited
FFserver works in tandem with FFmpeg so FFmpeg does the encoding, muxing (combining the audio and video into a container) etc and then creates a stream in the format that FFserver accepts, then FFserver streams it to the client, see link at bottom.
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That is why I like a rtmp based solution, when you can only have one connection to the rtmp server (YouTube, Twitch, etc) and they take charge of the users watching it. FFServer seems to work in a similar way, but we need to point the one streaming to that server and the users will connect to it. (it is somekind similar).
But as a dissavantage of it (YouTube, Twitch, etc) you can only use their website to play the stream with a flash player. I'm trying to find something that can be used with the web flash player and with VLC at the same time. And that works with VLC under eCS, but that seems to be hard.
Martin Iturbide:
FFslit looks very interesting: http://www.ffsplit.com/
It run on Windows. But seems to be a very "good for free" tool.
It works very easy with twitch, and I had also configured it with YouTube Live, but it requires more tweaking.
Martin Iturbide:
Hi
During the Warpstock conference, I was using Ustream to live stream the presentation. I got messages that OS/2 web browser with the Flash plugin was not working and that users needed to use Windows, Android or iOS to view the videos. I was told that UStream site was giving some message that the flash version running (on OS/2-eCS) was too old.
But I just checked today and I can see a Ustream live video right now. Can someone else check it out? or maybe a streaming with the UStream producer gives other result that is not compatible with OS/2 flash plugin.
Regards
Andi B.:
I did not test eCS flash but what definitely does not work is ustream with my BlackBerry PlayBook. Ustream says flash is not up to date and do not let me see anything. But Adobe says it is. Needless to say that I trust Adobe more than ustream in that case.
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