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Author: Shawn Badger
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Live streaming server
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?
>
>
>
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