Provide Simpler UI for Streaming: Use Profiles
Posted: 02 Sep 2006 01:17
Hi there,
I already used VLC quite a lot and tried streaming to our LAN a couple of times, but although I used the manual from the homepage and the settings seem to be straight forward, it so often just didn't work. Not that it was hard to establish a stream to be broadcasted, but to find the right combination of transcoders a.s.o. so it would play on WMP or Media Player Calssic instead of using VLC as a client - Not everybody has VLC installed on his/her computer.
So what I would propose is to provide, so called 'Profiles'. Selecting a profile would select the right combination of encoders (cache...) to suit a certain task, eg. a Profile could be called 'WMP Client 384kbit upload'. This profile would already then be proven to run on WMP.
The UI would then only consist of following Items
The most improtant Profiles would be preconfigured. For advanced settings [Change Parameters] could be used. Additional Profile could also be created.
I already used VLC quite a lot and tried streaming to our LAN a couple of times, but although I used the manual from the homepage and the settings seem to be straight forward, it so often just didn't work. Not that it was hard to establish a stream to be broadcasted, but to find the right combination of transcoders a.s.o. so it would play on WMP or Media Player Calssic instead of using VLC as a client - Not everybody has VLC installed on his/her computer.
So what I would propose is to provide, so called 'Profiles'. Selecting a profile would select the right combination of encoders (cache...) to suit a certain task, eg. a Profile could be called 'WMP Client 384kbit upload'. This profile would already then be proven to run on WMP.
The UI would then only consist of following Items
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+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
| Profile: |_WMP 384kbit_______|+| [Change Parameters] |
| Source:|_MyVideo.avi_______|+| |
| |
| |
| Use this URL for your WMP client |
| http://myserver.com:1234/Stream.wmv |
| |
| [Start>][Cancel] |
| |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
you must be a mind reader. (Good to know that we're heading in the right direction)