Re: Video Streaming test

On Mar 16, 2007, at 8:25 AM, Siju George wrote:

> On 3/16/07, Jason Dixon <jason@dixongroup.net> wrote:
>> For folks that will want to be involved in the first streamed
>> presentation (CapBUG, 3/27/07), please make sure you have your media
>> players RTSP-capable (http://metabug.org/news/video-streaming-
>> update/). If you need assistance, feel free to post to the
>> talk@metabug.org list, but don't wait until the last minute.
>
> I am on OpenBSD 4.0/amd64 Release.
>
> the page says
>
> "Although this patch is only tested against -current, it should work
> with OpenBSD 4.0 and -stable with minimal edits."
>
> Is there some editing i need to do before I apply the patch and make
> install in ports?

Besides the work that it took to get this working on i386, I'm
generally clueless with matters of multimedia. If you have codecs
for amd64, the same process should apply. But I think I've read that
codecs for i386 will not work on 64-bit. Don't quote me on that.

>> I can provide a test stream for users, but I'd like to do it at a
>> unified time so as to a) ease my workload, and b) do a dry run to see
>> what sort of bandwidth/cpu hit we take on the streaming server.
>> Reply to this message if you'd like to be included in a streaming
>> test.
>
> yes please include me and also tell me the Time Zone when you post
> the time :-)
>
> I am on IST i.e GMT + 5:30
>
> hope to get VLC or mplayer fixed by that time.

Mike Erdely might be willing to provide VLC and liveMedia packages to
interested parties.

--
Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net
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