Live video streaming on FreeBSD?

Hi all,
I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD
(streamingserver and
encoder or either).

I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder
quite a lot, but I
try to run as much as possible on FreeBSD. My question would
be, is there a
streaming server and possibly an encoder available for
FreeBSD that will
stream live video that is compatible with most mediaplayers
(for Windows,
Mac and Linux desktops)?

Any help or directions are very much appreciated.

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,
Andreas
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Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote:
 > I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD
(streamingserver and
 > encoder or either).
 > 
 > I have previously used Windows Media Server and
Encoder quite a lot, but I
 > try to run as much as possible on FreeBSD. My question
would be, is there
 > a streaming server and possibly an encoder available
for FreeBSD that will
 > stream live video that is compatible with most
mediaplayers (for Windows,
 > Mac and Linux desktops)?
 > 
 > Any help or directions are very much appreciated.

ffmpeg and vlc come to mind.  Both can be used as streaming
servers, and ffmpeg has pretty good encoding capabilities.

Other than that, I suggest you use a Ports search engine.
For example, this should give you a few results to play
with:

http://www.secnetix.de/tools/porgle/?w=ncd&a
mp;q=video+stream+server

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On Tuesday 23 October 2007 5:01 am, Andreas Widerøe Andersen
wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD
(streamingserver and
> encoder or either).
>
> I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder
quite a lot, but I
> try to run as much as possible on FreeBSD. My question
would be, is there a
> streaming server and possibly an encoder available for
FreeBSD that will
> stream live video that is compatible with most
mediaplayers (for Windows,
> Mac and Linux desktops)?
>
> Any help or directions are very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Best regards,
> Andreas
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Check vlc & vls in ports/packages.  It should cover all
the (streaming) 
standards.

Mark
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On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:01:02AM +0200, Andreas Widerøe
Andersen wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm looking for a way to stream live video on FreeBSD
(streamingserver and
> encoder or either).
> 
> I have previously used Windows Media Server and Encoder
quite a lot, but I
> try to run as much as possible on FreeBSD. My question
would be, is there a
> streaming server and possibly an encoder available for
FreeBSD that will
> stream live video that is compatible with most
mediaplayers (for Windows,
> Mac and Linux desktops)?

/usr/ports/multimedia/mencoder can encode/recode videos to
many
different formats, including wmv9 and H.264.

/usr/ports/multimedia/vlc contains a streaming server,
IIRC.

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Mark Moellering wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 October 2007 5:01 am, Andreas Widerøe
Andersen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I'm looking for a way to stream live video on
FreeBSD (streamingserver and
>> encoder or either).
>>
>> I have previously used Windows Media Server and
Encoder quite a lot, but I
>> try to run as much as possible on FreeBSD. My
question would be, is there a
>> streaming server and possibly an encoder available
for FreeBSD that will
>> stream live video that is compatible with most
mediaplayers (for Windows,
>> Mac and Linux desktops)?
>>
>> Any help or directions are very much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas
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> 
> 
> Check vlc & vls in ports/packages.  It should cover
all the (streaming) 
> standards.
> 

We have been using Apple's Darwin Streaming server with
excellent results.

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> /usr/ports/multimedia/mencoder can encode/recode videos
to many
> different formats, including wmv9 and H.264.
> 
> /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc contains a streaming server,
IIRC.

Do any of these support multicast?  Cisco is pushing this
big time with
AVVID.
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On Wednesday 24 October 2007 17:03:57 Brian A. Seklecki
wrote:
> > /usr/ports/multimedia/mencoder can encode/recode
videos to many
> > different formats, including wmv9 and H.264.
> >
> > /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc contains a streaming
server, IIRC.
>
> Do any of these support multicast?  Cisco is pushing
this big time with
> AVVID.

vlc supports multicast. Cisco has a marketing department and
maybe
according to them multicast would be the "new hot
stuff".

Nikos
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:35:34 +0300
Nikos Vassiliadis <nvassteledomenet.gr> wrote:

> On Wednesday 24 October 2007 17:03:57 Brian A. Seklecki
wrote:
> > > /usr/ports/multimedia/mencoder can
encode/recode videos to many
> > > differen

Well, no, its just that the 99% of the managed switches
& routers out
there are going to ("need to") support multicast
video delivery
they way they want.

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On Wednesday 24 October 2007 17:44:13 Brian A. Seklecki
wrote:
> Well, no, its just that the 99% of the managed switches
& routers out
> there are going to ("need to") support
multicast video delivery
> they way they want.

I guess there are many possible solutions. YMMV. Many
solutions
to many different problems. For example, you can keep
multicast
to the edge of your network, near the clients. YMMV.

My point is, we don't have to advocate Cisco and
proprietary
software here, right? In fact, we don't have to advocate
anything.

Let's let this conversation go. It's irrelevant to this
list.

Nikos
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