Video Lan Client/Server

Just downloaded and tried this out, really quite neat.
I have a DVD playing in the server and streaming to the internal
network. The quality is pretty good and it is smooth on a 100MB network.
I am quite amazed at the results.

http://www.videolan.org/

Now all I need to do is try it on 802 wifi and see how it performs.

 

I've tried it on a 802.11g network and it was fine but somepeople I know
say it didn't work well on a b network, you results may vary!

 

ChrisOD said the following on 8/10/2004 23:23:

Yep I think the clue is in the statement
" The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2,
MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital
terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4
or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes."
I doubt b has enough bandwidth for it but a and g would be close.

 

IIRC a DVD requires about 8Mb/s, but an 802.11b network although
nominally 11Mb/s, tops out in practice at about 7 once error correction
etc is taken into account. So its close, but not quite enough. And if
you have more than 4 or 5 PCs on your wireless LAN, or a microwave oven
or cordless phone nearby, then your 802.11g might turn out a bit too
flakey to stream DVDs over at times too.

 

Good luck, authough if your house is the typical kiwi toothpick and cardboard
construction you may be alright for a few rooms. - Remember that in reality you
only ever get slightly above 1/2 the physical layer speed on 802.11 so you will
need at least an 18, and possibly 24 mbit link, which means being pretty close
to the accesspoint

 

Videolan can transcode to various codecs to suit the bandwidth