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RE: Streaming Video Over A LAN
Title: RE: [ukha_d] Streaming Video Over A
LAN
Its my
own web based application using ASP and Access.
Media
player is used for playback. There have been several discussions about it
in the
past. Its not easy for it to be made available for download as the database
required a fair bit on manual input to ensure good
data.
It
doesnt use MP3 tags because.....
a. I
didnt know about them when I first started development
b. the
data inside them contains a great deal of crap.
For a
collection that starts small and you develop over time the data entry is no
real
problem. An artist or title only ever need to be entered once, after that
they
are picked from a list.
It
supports unlimited playlists and will self randomise. It can be played from
any
PC with Internet Explorer and Media Player which covers ALL my
PC's.
Once I
get a new ASP hosting service sorted out I will have a demo of the
database/frontend live on the web but obviously no MP3's for it to
play.
It
also supports DiVx, AVI and MPG files so can be used as a video
jukebox.
The
search facilities are extremely powerful but that only comes from careful
data
entry. It doesnt suit everyone who has seen it although the main gripe is
the
lack of support for MP3 tags. The power of my search comes from sroting the
Artist as several fields whereas in an MP3 tag is is a single field
eg
MP3
tag = "Michael Jackson"
My
fields are
ArtistFirstname = "Michael"
ArtistName = "Jackson"
I
can
search for "mi\ja" and get all Micheal Jackson tracks listed almost
instantly,
if I also enter "th" in the Title field is will return
"Thriller".
I
am
not overly worried that it isnt useable by everyone as it was developed to
suit
my music collection which tends to differ from the "norm". Most software
out
there assumes that people by an album by a single artist. My collection
consists
almost entirely of compilation CD's and thousands of 7 & 12" singles
accumulated over a 20 year period as a DJ. I also wanted to store
additional
info such as Chart Data. This enables me to set up rules to play songs
randomly
chosen by the rule.
I
can
set up a rule to play songs that reached number X in the chart where X =
currentday so on the first of the month I would only hear Number Ones,
Today I
would get songs that peaked at Number 11.
It
means I dont have to choose the songs to listen to and I would get to hear
stuff
long since forgotten about that I may never otherwise choose. I will also
be
able to set preferences on a per user basis so that I NEVER have to listen
to
some of the stuff that SWMBO likes.....and vice-versa.
Hope
that explains a little :-)
Keith
What software were you using? Is there a link?
(Sorry if it was in a previous post - it must have missed
me)
Regards David
-----Original
Message-----
From: Keith Doxey [mailto:lists.diyha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 July 2002 09:57
To:
ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Streaming
Video Over A LAN
When I did my jukebox demo at the London meet, I finished
with
a demo of its
DiVx Video serving
capabilities.
I was watching "Me Myself and Irene" on the laptop being
used
as the server.
A couple of minutes later Ian Lowe started the same movie
showing on his
laptop (obviously a couple of
minutes
behind my showing).
Then Dr. John started to watch "Dinosaurs" on his laptop.
My
P3 900 laptop
was happily serving all three movies
until I pulled the network cable out
just to prove
thet they were coming from my machine.
My laptop was connected to the 100MB switch that was set up
for the meet,
but Ian and John were using WIRELESS
connections to the WAP connected to the
LAN.
I doubt we could have gone beyond 2 wireless clients but it
was certainly
working fine for the 2 in use. I dont
know how well it would cope with true
DVD but DiVx
worked fine :-)
Keith
www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv
-----Original Message-----
From:
Andy
Laurence [mailto:andy@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 July 2002 09:16
To:
ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Streaming
Video Over A LAN
> What would you use to stream a video over a LAN,
specifically over WLAN
> at 6-10Mbs?
Have you checked how much bandwidth you're actually
getting? ITYF you
don't get 6Mbps.
802.11b
is rated at 11Mbps, but you'll generally only
see
half
of that, ie. 5.5Mbps.
> I'm trying to stream a DVD from one machine to another
on
the WLAN and
> get a pretty poor result with it
using Power DVD.
I thought a DVD was about 2Mbps? I expect I'm very
wrong
though!
Andy
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