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Hi Guys,

I am looking for video streaming server software for debian.Can some one suggest some applications with installation and configuration guide.

Thanks for your help

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VLC media player

Submitted by jamei on Tue, 2006-10-31 08:05.

Have you tried VLC media player?

www.videolan.org

It is quite powerful for streaming, as a server and as a player.
It supports most formats (including wmv9), on the fly transcoding, most streaming protocols, video on demand, and is quite simple to set up.

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installation guide

Submitted by david23 on Tue, 2006-10-31 11:39.

Hi,

Thanks for your help and i am looking for some how to or setup guide.I have installed this from debian packages but after that i got stuck how to proceed for configuring video streaming.

Thanks for your help

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Some VLC tutorials

Submitted by jamei on Wed, 2006-11-01 04:29.

There are a number of tutorials on the VLC website, for a start.

The VLC Streaming Howto: http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/streaming-howto-en.html

And a few other pages at http://www.videolan.org/doc/

Without knowing what you are trying to do, I cannot give any specific advice, but just to see if you can get things working, try the Streaming Wizard (file menu :)
I found it was very easy to use, and it worked first time for me.
If you then need to do more advanced things with you streaming (eg. transcoding), choose a video file as you would normally to play it, but check the box "Stream/Save" and edit the settings.

How'd it go?

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wmv file

Submitted by david23 on Wed, 2006-11-01 10:05.

Hi,

I am having one .wmv file and i need to stream over internet like if an user click on the link it should start streaming from the server in this case i am not sure which way i need to start

thanks for your help

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things you should do

Submitted by jamei on Wed, 2006-11-01 19:17.

sadly, i don't really have any experience here, but if I wanted to get it working, here is what I would do.

First, read this chapter in the manual - it introduces VLM.
http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch05.html

I would also read this - not entirely related, but it tells you how to use an http interface to control VLC.
http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html#id294007

Next, search the Forums on videolan to see if anyone has explained how to do this. Concentrate on the VLM section. (I'm pretty sure that VLM video on demand is the solution.)
http://forum.videolan.org/

In fact, the mailing list archives are often more useful than forums.
http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/ml/videolan-en.html

If I still did not know what to do, I would send a message to the mailing list:
http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html

If you are a fan of IRC, you can give that a go, but I personally don't find it very useful for support
* IRC network: irc.videolan.org
* Channel: #videolan

So there you have it. Let us know how thing work out, or if you need any more support.

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maybe this would suit you better

Submitted by jamei on Wed, 2006-11-01 23:16.

perhaps this is more what you had in mind?
http://www.debianhelp.org/node/1536

(You would have to convert your wmv to a different format, but that is easy enough)

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