[MPlayer-dev-eng] OT: Question about broadcasting server and player

[Robos]

On Fri, 19.04.02, Hetz Ben Hamo <hetz at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> Allow me to ask few questions here - I'm asking on this mailing list because I 
> know all the best and brightest people in the video/multimedia are subscribed 
> to this list - so I'll describe the situation and ask some questions if u 
> don't mind...
> 
> I've been asked by a cable company about a solution for their subscribers to 
> allow:
> 
> 1. Get VoD (Video On Demand) through their cable by network (the cable company 
> supplies an internet connection) so someone can either watch video on PC and 
> probably later - on TV.
> 2. Multi platform client - Linux, Mac, PC.
> 3. Embedded solution - optional.
> 4. Streaming servers running on Linux, Solaris, SGI - you know the drift - 
> anything that won't fail like tower of poker cards (hint - Windows), and can 
> handle thousands of requests.
> 5. Fast, fast, fast encoding - there is a huge number of tapes to transform 
> from Analog (broadcast tapes) to Digital format
> 6. DRM - optional. You'll never know if the suits want it or not...
> 7. Open Source - preferrable (and if possible - a company behind it)
> 
> I have considered 4 options:
> 
> 1. Windows media server/client - the obvious disadvantages are: No official 
> Linux client, No Linux/Unix server.
> 2. Real server/Real Player - costs fortune, haven't heard good reports about 
> broadcast quality (PC full screen or PAL TV).
> 3. DivX - while I played with it and got some pretty good results, I didn't 
> see any official server side real-time encoder, prices for server programs, 
> etc...
> 4. On2 VP4, VP5 - looks good, but same issues as divx.
> 
> Are there any options that you recommend? 
Hi!
Maybe mpeg4ip (sf.net)? Have only read a little, but seems to fit in
quite a lot of cases.
Robos