[vdr] Re: ANNOUNCE: vdr-stream-0.1.0

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

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From: "Sascha Volkenandt" <mailbot1@wat.willz.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:02 AM
Subject: [vdr] ANNOUNCE: vdr-stream-0.1.0


> Hello List,
>
> I've released a new version of the streaming plugin on:
>
> http://www.magoa.net/linux
>
> with version number 0.1.0, I'd like to intoduce an official "unstable"
> branch of the streaming plugin, while I'd consider the versions before
> as "alpha". Unicast and Multicast streaming in Fixed Channel Mode are
> reported to work now.
>
> With this release, I'd like to introduce another Stream Type for
> ffmpeg (or any other tool that can process a PES). I use it to stream
> the data to a running ffserver (the machine running ffmpeg should be
> powerful...), which can create many streams like W*nd*ws MediaPlayer
> streams, RealMedia streams or plain HTTP streams as well in any
> desired format and size. See the included ffstream.sh.example
>
> Maybe anyone will find this useful as well;)
>
> CHANGES since 0.0.5:
> - Multicast and Unicast seem to work in fixed channel mode now (that's why
>   the version changed from 0.0.x to 0.1.x, more precisely from an alpha
>   state to an unstable state;) )
> - Added setup entry to edit the Multicast Group IP
> - Added streaming to ffserver through ffstream.sh
> - Renamed "Streaming Mode" to "Channel Mode" to avoid confusion
>

Great, does it mean you will use ffserver instead of RTP?
If you get it on air with ffserver, you won't need much horsepower as long
as you only stream the PES.

But some question:

The Multi-/Unicast address looks like "XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:YYYY:Z".
My problem will be (didn't install the streaming-plugin, yet) to identify
the "Z" for the program I want to receive on my client. Could you use the
channel-numbers of VDR for "Z"?

This leads to another idea:

What about integrating ffserver directly as plugin. That way you could use
channel-names as feed-names on the ffserver-webpage and later you could port
functions of VDRADMIN like EPG - into the plugin ...

Rene



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