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I will have a EpiaM6000 (C3 600MHz => low performance).

It will be file server and Firewall,

Is this kind of hardware sufficient to be a DivX VCL Stream server ?

Depends on the kind of streaming you want to do and if you plan on doing live transcoding.

Depends on the kind of streaming you want to do and if you plan on doing live transcoding.

I want to visualize DivX,

It's the server or it's the client that decodes DivX data ?

what i meant was :
do you want to do live streaming or video on demand ?
do you want to transcode or serve the file as is ?
...

In fact, I don't know exactly what I will do ! I think I will read VLC documentation ...

I want to use a FreeBox/FreePlayer to visualiise DivX on my TV. I think it's a portage of VLC .

So I want to use the "linux-VLC server" need by the FreePlayer, ....

I suppose it's a "video-on-demand", but I'm not sure....

what kind of pc would i need to stream live video (im looking to stream the local football games from where my house is (MD) to where i go to school (NJ)

another thing is bandwidth, my home cable upload is capped at about 350-380kbits ps (what kind of quality will i be able to get with that? assuming im using one of the various mpeg 4 codecs)

that being said, what computer is strong enough to encode divx/xvid in real time?

lastly, what tv card should i get? (hauppage 250/350?)

I dont mean to hijack this thread but it seems like this might be of interest to the OP.

thanx.

The hauppauge 250/350 are hardware encoding cards, it means that the computer makes nothing to encode videos. So you can stream with these cards with a very old computer like (300MHz).

I think they only encode in mpeg2 so it uses more bandwidth than mpeg4.

If you want to use VLC to transcode the video, I think that at least 1GHz is necessary.