Minimal hardware requirement

[didou]

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 ?

[dionoea]

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

[didou]

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 ?

[dionoea]

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 ?
...

[didou]

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....

[FlyingPig]

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.

[jix]

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.