[Live-devel] general question

[Stian Broen]

Hi,

I'm planning to make a video server application, and would like to get some question answered before I start the actual work. I will first explain how the application should work, and then the questions.

The application will be a server in which a client can stream video from over a LAN. It must be in such a way, that it is possible to experiment with different video codecs and different settings of those. It should also be possible to experiment with individual video coding methods (such as for example DCT-transform only, VLC-coding only etc.). In this way I hope to find a spesific video compression method that is well suited for a spesific type of video. The video is composed of data from a subsea sonar. It will run on a PC with Windows XP, and I will use Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition for development. I realize that the application will perhaps need to be split in two, one for the video-coding, and one for the server-specific purposes. And an adequate interface between the two.

I'm rather new to this kind of programming, but I have the basic knowledge in networks-theory, TCP/IP socket programming, videocompression and C/C++. My questions are :

* Will you recommend live555 code as a starting platform for this kind of application?
* Has there already been made similar applications for these kinds of experimenting? If yes, where can i learn about these? 
* Is there perhaps some resources regarding live555 you recommend I look at before working with the code?

And if there are any questions you think I SHOULD be asking regarding this spesific type of application, but hasn't, feel free to answer them anyway =)


regards

Stian Broen

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