November 29, 2003

Streaming Media (like math) is hard

Hey! Enki has moved his blog to Armyofevilrobots.com. Check it out after you are done here. This page is going nowhere though...

I spent the last 24 hours pretty much non-stop, in front of my computer, trying to get a functional live streaming media system running on my computer. Much to my disappointment, I have not been able to do so. The catch is that the system must

  • Use Linux as the primary server
  • Spit out a stream that is viewable on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX
  • Not use any pirate software
Tall order eh? Here is what failed horribly:
  • ffmpeg/ffserver would crash after only 30 seconds. The site states that ffserver is broken, and will be fixed "real soon now"
  • Darwin Streaming Server won't even start the included demo streams. MP3 seems to work though...
  • Video Lan Client has an inpenetrable language, and segfaults continuously (on my otherwise reliable gentoo box). Still, shows the most promise
Where does this leave me? Poring over the protocol analysis tool Ethereal trying to grok enough info to write my own server in Python.

Wish me luck!

Posted by Enki at November 29, 2003 09:52 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Yes you are so right, I’m also still trying to get a decent video stream out of my FreeBSD / Linux box.
Not yet found any good solution

Posted by: Cubase at December 19, 2003 11:32 AM

How's the live stream thing going?

I was able to get the last stable ffmpeg/server working, but the ffmpeg side suffers, not being CVS. It did however work and work fairly well.

I managed it on a 200 mgz machine no less, but could only encode at 10fps, lacking hoarspower to push the codecs any higher.

hint: Slackware 9.1 and no X running, lest it falls down badly.

Let me know where you went with your efforts and if you've learned more. I did determine that the cvs ffserver is not the problem, but rather the ffm output of the ffmpeg that feeds the server.

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