Yeah, that documentation seems outdated (and there haven't any commits in a long time). That being said, I tried to build vlmc myself today and managed the build to start at least. However, I ran into a problem at a later stage which I haven't been able to figure out. Assuming to have all dependenci...
Alternatively, server A could stream whenever I feel to stream something, to server B, which just would not provide a stream to the enduser, if stream A->B is not active at the time.
Well, Server A is in fact my home computer, transcoding and streaming the source material. Server B is my rootserver, which grabs the stream from A and relays it to multiple endpoints. Sorry if I was not clear on that.
I succeeded with what I was trying to accomplish. My home computer now streams over my DSL connection once, whereas my rootserver streams to as many clients as I like. I used vlc for this. So it is seemingly possible after all... it's funny how many times I read some dev in these forum stating that ...
ok, could you tell me about the terminology I have to look for here ? Is connection (1) an unicast and are connection(s) (2) broadcasts (or are they multicasts) ? If so, doesn't vlc support broadcasting ? I have a feeling you got me wrong or I explained myself not well enough.
ok, I'll try to clear some things up: A ---(1)--- B ---(2)--- C A is the pc using VLC to do the transcoding mentioned in my post above. (1) is a low bandwidth connection B is the root server where VLC shall grab the http stream once (!) from A and then provide multiple streams via (2), the unlimited...
Hey guys, I am unsure about the terminology for what I am trying to accomplish, so I'll describe what I want to do: I already set up a vlc broadcast on server A using: vlc --sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=600,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=1}:http{mux=ffmpeg{mux=flv},dst=:4321/vlc.flv}}&q...