[Live-devel] streaming divx and xvid from AVI files

[Kon Wilms]

> Why not using Vlc on both side ??
> Vlc is a very good streaming server and it can surely
> do it, as I do it often :S

You mean when it isn't crashing? :)

> > >I have downloaded and compiled the live555
> > streaming source, and I 
> > >would like to use it to stream DIVX and XVID
> > video/audio from an AVI 
> > >container to clients such as VLC and windows media
> > player.
> > >I cant see any code that may allow me to do this,
> > is there something 
> > >already out there
> > 
> > No, not yet (as far as I know).

Just write a directshow source filter and stuff the packets into IP. The
directshow SDK has some rudimentary examples on doing this (provided you
want to use windows ofcourse). The problem however is that a
off-the-shelf DIVX/AVI file usually doesn't make for a good source for
transmission, due to burstiness, GOP length, etc. You may need to
re-encode some files.

Cheers
Kon