Live streaming server

Ed plug at 0x1b.com
Tue Sep 8 16:30:00 MST 2015


look in your repo for live555
http://www.live555.com/

also - depending on your use case try MediaGoblin
http://mediagoblin.org/

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Shawn Badger <shawn at badger.pro> wrote:
> Pulseaudio would work if I was doing sound, but I'm doing video and
> ironically no audio.
>
> Thanks though
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>>
>> Pulseaudio can handle this to some extents without too much work, but
>> careful, the networking and other encroaching processes will cause the
>> real-time nature to be quirky.  I used to do this to some extent of success,
>> using my ubuntu media server to stream audio from other hosts at it via
>> multicast or unicast.  Tends to stutter by default as a habit, but at the
>> time I *was* using it on a 400mhz ppc imac with ubuntu as the player source.
>> What could go wrong.
>>
>> Some audio chips are better than others too, ymmv there.
>>
>> Best thing is a dedicated box doing little else, but pulse with their rtp
>> sink can do much of this, but you'll need to tweak with it some, giving it a
>> real-time kernel, setting the priority of the devices, processes, setting
>> pulse to do rt, etc.
>>
>> There are some people working around things like this on a raspberry pi
>> with some of their spi audio chips that don't suck like the built-in ones.
>> Have to use real-time on those, but it works it seems.  Was going to do this
>> for using pi's in audio distribution around my house as a pet project.
>>
>> Pulse is pretty cool for that, I use pavucontrol to mux streams with it.
>> You can do some interesting things patching like with jack actually if you
>> toggle a few options, like exposing monitor sinks.  I have some security
>> camers with 2 way audio on them, but use a horrid active-x based interface
>> to use it.  I redirect the mic audio sink of the xp box pulse to a monitor
>> of the output of my audio card, so I'll stream music that way around the
>> house for giggles, and annoy my birds back.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>> On 09/08/2015 02:41 PM, Shawn Badger wrote:
>>
>> I am looking for a way to stream an RTSP stream to a bunch of people
>> internally, so kind of a locally hosted live CDN.  I have looked into trying
>> it with VLC but it seems to only stream files.
>> Here are a couple of the base requiremnets that I need to meet:
>>
>> 1. locally hosted
>> 2. CLI to add/remove stream or just control
>> 3. a single connection to the original stream
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way to do this?
>>
>>
>>
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