Streaming Video - Best Tool(s) For The Job?
I've been trying for about a week now to come up with a solution for streaming videos from my home connection (~512kbps upstream) to another location, but so far have come up empty. I can't seem to find any good client software that will transcode the video to the server...at least without crashing (VLC *cough*).
My question is, do any of you out there know of a good client software that will transcode a video to an IceCast server that's free? Also, what would be a good container/audio/video combination? I'm pretty sure IceCast supports Theora, but I haven't been able to get it to work. Thanks in advance! One more thing. Preferably this would all be from the command line, as I don't have X installed on any of the boxes I work with. |
Hmm, not sure if this will help (and I don't understand your environment at all) but take a look at the MPlayer package. If I remember right it has some streaming capabilities, and with the right codec packs it is fully OGG / Theora "aware". It can be run on the commandline in a headless configuration setting, AND it has a very powerful encoder (the mencoder binary) that comes along with it.
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I've found a configuration string that works in VLC...at least when I'm streaming one episode at a time.
Code:
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=theo,vb=300,scale=.5,acodec=vorb,ab=48,channels=2,deinterlace}:duplicate{dst=std{access=shout,mux=ogg,dst=source:password@tv.someserv.er//mount_point}} The problem I was having with VLC was that if you don't have just the right settings, VLC crashes. It took me about 15 crashes before I found the right combination of options. I'll check out MPlayer rlyan76, and report back on my findings. |
Cool, ok, I've learned something here too.. thanks for posting that commandline!
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