[Pc_Support] Video streaming?

[Brian Ashe]

Ah. I had it in my head you wanted to do this with
"live" broadcasts somehow. Yeah, if you're just
talking about playing a directory full of MPEGs or
AVIs or whatever, the best thing to do is just connect
to a file server through the protocol of your choice
and play them with the player of your choice.
Plain-vanilla 10/100 is fast enough to play just about
anything. 

I have some ripped DVDs (not compressed, just copied
the VIDEO_TS folder) on one machine that I can play on
another, so that's about as large of a file as you'll
ever run into. Just do the math--if a 2 hour movie is
stored on an 8 GB DVD, all you need to do is move 4 GB
per hour, or 1 GB in 15 minutes. I've never had any
trouble achieving that speed over any type of
10/100--SMB, AFP, whatever. [later] OK, just did a
little test. I copied a 600MB .tgz via SCP from a Mac
laptop to a file server and it took about 4 minutes,
so that's 1 GB in about 7 minutes--twice as fast as
you'll ever need, unless you start getting into
high-def.

--- Damien McKenna <dmckenna at thelimucompany.com>
wrote:

> I finally gave up on the idea, after several hours
> of messing I got VLC
> to transmit two frames then stop - its a pig in
> terms of user
> friendliness.  I'll just see if I can share the
> files via SMB or
> something, that'll be much less hassle for me.



		
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