On Friday 11 June 2010 19:26:30 neel wrote:

Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need information regarding IPTV

On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:42:33 neel wrote:

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Today if you seem Photon provides PhotonTV, Vodaphone has Vodaphone

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TV which we can see using internet instead of Radio frequency.

I want to know how we can start IPTV broadcasting in Linux? How does this technology work?

jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote

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search for streaming, broadcast, multicast vlc does a good job. As does gstreamer or any of the 20+ linux media streaming solutions.

Thanks... for response.

I tried VLC and I could do streaming properly over the Internet. Now I am learning how to do Scheduling of videos.

Post all the details of what you do here. Also create a wiki page on http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/

VLC is really cool tool.

It is. As is gstreamer and ffmpeg.

But I found problem running vlc videos on IE.

doze as usual uses a mangled version of mp4. You have to select msmpeg4 to get it to work. IMO it is very bad workaround. internet exploder plods along in it's own vicious circle. Get on with life.

Also on firefox with windows you need to install VLC player with Mozilla plugin selected.

vlc is a very good media player. Instead of the above mentioned stupid workaround, this is an excellent option and intro to FLOSS for the microserfs.

One more issue is installing vlc on production CentOS server. I couldnt install it with yum. May be I need to compile it.

I will work on it and post doc for it.

Thanks n Regards Neelesh