Few Questions before business installation

[Teufler]

Hi there!

I'm have to implement a TV streaming solution in a customer center. Kind of "professional" environment

I was thinking about using VLC as a Streaming Server and also as Client solution.

There are some Questions I don't really found an answer to.
Maybe you can help me out there.

1.) I want to set up more than one stream. 3 TV-Cards (whether digital/analog will be decided soon) within one powerful Computer. Can I handle each PCI card in one System(Linux) and made 3 different Streams with different Settings out of it?

2.) If the Server is unavailable there should be a temporary screen on the Client, eg some text etc, one way would be to have a playlist with a loop, but thats not so nice, right?

3.) Maybe it would be cool to have a "thin" Client Solutions, that are only for recieving the stream, and nothing more. I can"just" (ok, sounds silly - just an idea!) edit the source code to make the GUI easy! .... Would you recomment a such a solution? It was just a spontaneous idea!

Thank you very much...

Martin

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

1) Yes. Use VLM for that matter (VLM is VLC manager)

2) I don't know if you can do that in VLC.

3) Well, if you need to modify the GUI, you could just write a very simple skin, or don't show any GUI at all.

[Teufler]

Hi again!

Where can I find the VLM? or is it already integrated in the GUI of the player? did'nt manage it to set up 2 diffenrent streams...with the standart GUI

In general, is it possible to set up an option for the stream, like "512 kbs" bandwidth?

I will set up 3 Streams, two in DVD quality (only for 4-6 Clients) and one Stream for 50+ Clients,
so the bandwidth must be lower than the signal coming in from DVB-Sat Card. (we do have gb-ethernet!)

Is this possible?

Also a question: I have to make an "Admin Interface". To have an easy way to change the channel on one of the 3 streams.

I never found something like that. Now I was thinking about coding a PHP script, which calls the "vlc" command ....
It wouldn be so hard to code this. Together with -lets say- a HTML framest with 4 cells, 3 for the streams + VLC Plugin and the last cell for the PHP script .... maybe this will be a working "admin" Interface.

Please let me know, if u know a better way!

Thanks!!!

Martin

[Teufler]

Okey, UPDATE!

I "found" the VLM .... it wasn't so hard )

if you have some interesting information about my "admin control panel", please let me know.


now i must figure out, how the commandline under Linux works


thanks.