Changes between Version 31 and Version 32 of StreamingGuide

Timestamp:

10/12/2012 02:02:27 AM (7 months ago)

Author:

rogerdpack

Comment:

more servers

StreamingGuide

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 FFmpeg can basically stream through one of two ways:  It either streams to a some "other server", which restreams for it, or it can stream via UDP directly to some destination host, or alternatively directly to a multicast destination.
-Servers which can receive from FFmpeg (to restream) include [http://ffmpeg.org/ffserver.html ffserver] (linux only, though with cygwin it might work), or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wowza_Media_Server Wowza Media Server], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Media_Server Flash Media Server]. Even [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player VLC] can pick up the stream from ffmpeg, then redistribute it, acting as a server.  Nginx also has an rtmp redistribution plugin. Since FFmpeg is at times more efficient than VLC at doing the raw encoding, this can be a useful option compared to doing both transcoding and streaming in VLC.
+Servers which can receive from FFmpeg (to restream) include [http://ffmpeg.org/ffserver.html ffserver] (linux only, though with cygwin it might work), or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wowza_Media_Server Wowza Media Server], or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Media_Server Flash Media Server]. Even [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player VLC] can pick up the stream from ffmpeg, then redistribute it, acting as a server.  Since FFmpeg is at times more efficient than VLC at doing the raw encoding, this can be a useful option compared to doing both transcoding and streaming in VLC. Nginx also has an rtmp redistribution plugin.  You can also live stream to online redistribution servers like own3d.tv or justin.tv (for instance streaming your desktop).
 
 How to stream with several different simultaneous bitrates is described [http://sonnati.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/ffmpeg-%E2%80%93-the-swiss-army-knife-of-internet-streaming-%E2%80%93-part-iv/ here].
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 Also note that encoding it to the x264 "baseline" is basically for older iOS devices or the like, see [http://sonnati.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/ffmpeg-%E2%80%93-the-swiss-army-knife-of-internet-streaming-%E2%80%93-part-iv/ here].  Some people argue that just using mpeg4video codec is better than x264 baseline (where possible) since it is a simpler codec.
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 == The -re flag ==