[ubuntu-in] video and audio streaming in gnu/linux

[Mehul Ved]

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:23 AM, stranger in black..... <gnuise at gmail.com>wrote:

> A internet radio team contacted me for converting them to gnu/linux. So
> please suggest me some applications via we can stream audios and videos to
> internet.
>

Hi,
One option that is mentioned by someone is Icecast. I have experimented with
icecast in the past. There were some issues back then with what format one
can stream. e.g. you cannot stream mp3 files, you'll have to convert them to
ogg and then pass it to ices server for streaming. I believe there's no
direct way of streaming wav files either. From the documentation, it seems
that this is still true.

Icecast only streams audio.

Another solution given is VLC. I have been using VLC to stream videos from
my PC to mobile phones over wifi so that my parents can watch videos sent by
relatives, since they find it too hectic to climb stairs to enter my room.
It's a perfect, easy, GUI tool and has lot of options and supports many
formats. You can also make it work from CLI, e.g. you want to script the
usage, you can look at cvlc, console version of vlc(it should already be
installed if you have VLC installed).

VLC can stream both audio and video.

Another option is ffserver, which is a part of ffmpeg. I haven't used it
personally as yet. You can view the documentation for ffserver at
http://ffmpeg.org/ffserver.html
There is some issue going on in the ffmpeg camp where they've forked the
project to libav. Currently, the application is still called ffserver in
libav project too and has the same documentation hosted at
http://libav.org/ffserver.html. This might change in the future.
ffserver can be used in conjunction with ffmpeg to encode/re-encode media on
the fly and integrate it into web applications too.

ffserver can stream both audio and video.

-- 
With Regards,
Mehul Ved
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