I am looking for way to stream live video content and VideoLAN caught my attention. My network admin told VideoLAN is not really designed for that. He says that you would have to write a program that would allow me to send live content from my Windows computer in Los Angeles to my Apache web server in Texas, then have people access it from there. (From some of your documentation I've read, how the content is accessed is another topic.)
What really confuses me is that in Murray's post, he says that "broadcasting is not allowed over the internet." C-SPAN broadcasts content all the time. I have watched several webcasts over the internet. I am not sure what Murray means.
The content I want to distribute is mine, I intend to use "open" source codecs. How do I make this happen without having to go through a third party and pay an arm and a leg for bandwidth, especially when I have plenty of bandwidwidth leftover on my Apache web server.