streaming audio/video on linux
Anthony Leung
anthonyl at ninesystems.com
Wed May 25 17:20:05 UTC 2005
There is a free streaming solutions when it comes to linux that is widely
accepted. Helix as Sean was saying has a large licensing cost. There is
always the alternative of using Darwin which is free and will stream vod and
live content. Flash Communication server is another option, but that is also
a heavy hit when it comes to licensing. FYI Helix is not supported on new
generations of Linux yet you should be safe running it on 2.4.21-4.EL. FCS
1.5 is also only supported to RHEL 3 currently I believe. If your thinking
of streaming for a business and need a fast turn around it might be wiser
for you to look at CDN.
Anthony Leung
Senior Unix
Administrator
Nine Systems Corp
www.ninesystems.com
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Sean O Sullivan
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:08 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: streaming audio/video on linux
Jessica Zhu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We need to set up a streaming audio/video server on linux.
>
>There are two kernel versions here. One is old 2.2.24-7.0.3enterprise and
>another is 2.4.21-4.EL. Could anyone recommend a good package(audio,
>video, or both)?
>
>I did some search myself. It seemed that a lot people use
>realplayer(audio/video), aumix(audio). I need to set up a server within
>two days. So instead of doing a lot of investigation myself, I'd like to
>hear the opinion from experienced people here.
>
>Thanks in advance for any input.
>
>Jessica
>
would say it depends very much on how much you've to spend.
Real is probably one of the best I have used, however, it comes with the
huge downside of license costs.
The older real server, now replaced by Helix Universal server streams
about any format (real, wm, flash (upto 4), and quicktime), and works
very well (hell of a lot nicer/better than WM in my experience).
Downside is license costs are quite high, so if it's company/corporate
venture, I'd suggest Real most defintely.
Regards,
Sean
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