Receiving and serving streams
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 10:32
Hi guys,
I'm very new to VLC and am struggling with some basic concepts.
I have searched the board and read through the docs but it seems I might be expecting something of this app that it's not designed to do. Either that or I missed the boat alltogether.
Here is my setup:
- Webcam at home with very limited internet connection
- webcamxp software on windows XP handling the data feed from the camera.
- centOS 5 linux server on the web with lots of bandwidth.
- the linux box is command line ONLY so there is no GUI.
What I want to do:
I want the server on the CentOS server to sit there with a web page with a viewer embedded into it.
There will be three scenarios:
1) No users vanting to viw the webcam:
Nothing happens, my webcam does not transmit any data to the linux server.
2) One user viewing my webcam:
the VLC server requests data from my webcam and a SINGLE stream is pulled from my house. A SINGLE stream is then sent to the user viewing.
3) Multiple users viewing my webcam:
the VLC server requests data from my webcam and a SINGLE stream is pulled from my house. MULTIPLE streams are then sent, one to every user viewing.
Please advise if this is possible and if so how would I go about doing this.
Many Thanks
I'm very new to VLC and am struggling with some basic concepts.
I have searched the board and read through the docs but it seems I might be expecting something of this app that it's not designed to do. Either that or I missed the boat alltogether.
Here is my setup:
- Webcam at home with very limited internet connection
- webcamxp software on windows XP handling the data feed from the camera.
- centOS 5 linux server on the web with lots of bandwidth.
- the linux box is command line ONLY so there is no GUI.
What I want to do:
I want the server on the CentOS server to sit there with a web page with a viewer embedded into it.
There will be three scenarios:
1) No users vanting to viw the webcam:
Nothing happens, my webcam does not transmit any data to the linux server.
2) One user viewing my webcam:
the VLC server requests data from my webcam and a SINGLE stream is pulled from my house. A SINGLE stream is then sent to the user viewing.
3) Multiple users viewing my webcam:
the VLC server requests data from my webcam and a SINGLE stream is pulled from my house. MULTIPLE streams are then sent, one to every user viewing.
Please advise if this is possible and if so how would I go about doing this.
Many Thanks