It is for work and yes I will be taking the stream off the camera via network. The problem is the camera can only support so many connections (around 4) but I may need to feed as many as 50 off the same camera. To also complicate things the camera is only accessible over a VPN with limited bandwidth so even if the camera could support 50 streams the bandwidth wouldn't be there. On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > Ah, different media. I guess people do watch video stuff. > > You talking personal or business? > > Yes, done some with like digital signage, live video feeds, etc. I'm not > sure if any non-commercial encoders out there, but we used an appliance > solution from Wowza that could at a mega corp customer of mine. I think > they were (sadly) still using a windoze or mac box for the encoding for the > raw video feed, but we did that for town hall effect, throwing up on tv's > around the various offices, etc. We did with unicast and multicast > internally across our backbone using various url's, dmz replication for > external use, etc. > > The wowza servers were linux appliances that seemed pretty nice for > commercial, the guy running them was a linux guy too so he'd have told me > if they sucked, and he was hacking on them to do other stuff with support > from the company. > > Don't ever deal with video transport muxing, but vlc is likely your best > open/free solution. If it can attach to an RTSP feed, it might be able to > serve it as well, but something needs to encode video (hardware/software) > and feed it via some streaming protocol, native rtsp would be good. > > The video guy there did have some high-end adapters for his high-end video > camera (long forgotten brands) that would supposedly network rtsp feed > direct over wifi from the camera, and he did use it, but not sure how > production it was. Have something like wowza servers to consume that feed > and absorb/reproduce via mcast/unicast to others. Getting dumb wifi > dongles, apple tv's, etc on an enterprise network, or talking internally to > network resources was always an issue. > > If a camera *can* network, it *should* provide a video feed I'd think, and > everything seems network enabled these days. Expecting or asking the likes > of sony or cannon to comprehend networking services can at times can likely > be, daunting. > > There should be something out there, I know there are dnla transcoders > that can absorb other streams (rtsp?), like fuppes and a few others I > forget. > > -mb > > > > On 09/08/2015 03:59 PM, Shawn Badger 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 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? >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >