[FFserver-user] live video streaming to many users ?

[nandan amar]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:50 PM, informatique lycee Pays-de-Retz <
adminrezo.0441992b at ac-nantes.fr> wrote:

> hello,
>
> I am looking for a technical solution to make live video-streaming to
> many users (almost) simultaneously
>
> Because of the risk of traffic-jam on the connexion-link of the server,
> my idea so solve this risk is to create a cascaded architecture :
>
> - 1  video-station is sending  initial stream to 1 top-level-server
> - 10-30  2nd-level servers get the stream from the top-level server :
> act as relay-server
> - 20-50  3rd-level servers receive the stream from every second-level
> server  (this makes 30 x 50  = 1500 servers) : act as relay-server
> - customers are on the 4rth level : about 100 customers per 3rd-level
> server
>
> second-level and third-level servers are on ADSL connexions
>
> so I have 3 questions :
> 1) level 1 :  do ffmpeg and ffserver necessary have to be on the same
> computer ? or is it possible to put a network-link between those 2
> applications ?
>

Yes This is possible.
You can feed  video stream to ffserver  as :
ffmpeg -i <input_video_file> http://
<server_address>:<port_no_where_server_is_listening>/<file.ffm>

2) level 2 and 3 : is it possible to build this cascade architecture
> with ffmpeg and ffserver ? that means create relay-servers based on
> ffmpeg and ffserver ?
>
> This looks like bit difficult and may not be possible as ffserver needs
feed in advance.
So cascading may work but delay may be an issue.


> 3) what is the best and reliable encoding for this (video 352x288
> 10-15fps +   audio 10 kHz) ?
>
> Thanks for any technical help
>

 what is your streaming media type.
If it is  normal movie 25 fps sud work and CIF (352x288) for not so great
as HD kind of quality.

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