Questions tagged [streaming]
Streaming is the process of continuously sending data from a server to a client host. Often used in video or audio transmission, live streaming is a time-critical process that makes high demands on the underlying network used to deliver the data.
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What is the best way to watch internet movies (Hulu, etc.) on my TV? [closed]
I have a TV in a room that can only get wireless access to my home network. Without having to drag one of my PCs into the room, what is the best (cheapest) way to watch online movies?
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Setup for a live (low-latency) audio video broadcast over Wi-Fi?
The Upgrade
We are capturing audio (from mixer) and video (from a camera) from a main auditorium and passing it to separate rooms within the building.
We used to have done this via manual audio/...
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Very low latency streaming
I'm looking to stream a live lecture into an overflow lecture theater. I'm planning to stream HD content along with audio from a powerful server with nVidia GeForce GPUs connected to the client via a ...
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vlc to stream webcam with no delay
I'm trying to get VLC to show my webcam in realtime:
vlc -I dummy v4l2:///dev/video0
does the trick for the most part, except there's almost a second delay between an action (say, me turning my head)...
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When streaming a song, in what folder does the song get saved?
When streaming a song, the song is downloaded and placed into a temporary folder on the computer, that much I know. However, while streaming the media file – mostly from Pandora – I have been ...
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FFmpeg: can't capture audio from microphone
I use FFmpeg under Windows 7 to stream live video. There are no problems with the camera, but for some reason I can't capture sound from the microphone (I've tested it, it works fine).
I use the -...
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How do I control the streaming frame rate of ffmpeg?
I am using ffmpeg to stream video:
ffmpeg -i $file -f mpegts udp://hostname:port
On another machine, I am using VLC to play the output stream.
The problem I have is that VLC is playing the stream in ...
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Linux DLNA Server
I have just recently set up a DLNA server on my GNU/Linux desktop at home. I am using PS3 Media Server to do the job. I like it a lot so far, but I was curious about whether or not it is the best ...
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How do I view a midi device stream
I have a midi controller, and it creates two files on my ubuntu system /dev/dmmidi and /dev/midi1. I want to see the raw output of my midi device when I push buttons and move sliders. I've tried ...
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How can I stream the same music to multiple computers?
Is there a way to stream the same playlist on multiple computers at the same time? I want to be able to sync what's playing on multiple computers (for parties etc).
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pipe unlimited curl stdout into chunked files
I've got an HTTP-endpoint that serves an unlimited stream of events.
Now I'd like to record that stream using curl, but splitting the recorded files at the same time - preferably based on the line ...
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uplink bandwidth requirements to stream HD down?
I have a TV service that uses ADSL technology. It means that my TV is basically streaming everything over the internet.
I was told today that this would require at least 1MB/s uplink to be able to ...
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Streaming in ffmpeg using RTP
Scenario
I'm trying to stream a video between 2 hosts using RTP. I have previously solved this problem using VLC using the following 2 commands
Server Side
cvlc video_file.mp4 --sout "#transcode{...
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Streaming personal music collection over the internet
Is there a way I can stream my personal music collection over the internet. I have a always on, always connected PC running Windows 7 which hosts the music collection. On my home network, streaming it ...
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Any NAS servers that stream FLAC audio?
I can't seem to find a NAS solution, aside from a custom built one, that is able to stream FLAC audio via UPnP. Streaming seems to be limited to MP3 or other popular formats. Do any exist that will ...
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How can I stream live TV from Windows Media Center to another computer?
How can I watch the live TV stream from my desktop computer on my laptop?
I am using Windows 7 Ultimate on both a desktop PC and a laptop. Both are connected on the same LAN and workgroup via 54Mbps ...
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Stream microphone through PC over
I have a microphone hooked up to a Windows 7 PC. I need to broadcast this microphone live across my local network to Android/iPhone devices connected by wi-fi. I can't seem to find a method to get ...
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Tunelling video stream through SSH
I have this problem. There is an udp video stream accessible only on the local network, but I need to access it outside of the network. I have Linux machine (multiple actually) with root access.
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Streaming music throughout the house on a budget?
I was wondering whether anyone knew of a way to stream music throughout a house on a budget?
I want to avoid spending any money on this (eg. I don't want to buy a d-link style device). It would be ...
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How to play android phone audio on a windows 8.1 PC's speakers using bluetooth, when "just connecting" doesn't work?
This question has been answered before here, here, and here. All answers say that it basically just works when you pair the android phone with the windows PC and hit play on the phone. I have tried ...
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FFMPEG webcam stream to Youtube drops frames
I need to do a live videostream on Youtube using a Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920.
My OS is Fedora 20, and the command I am trying to use is:
ffmpeg -f v4l2 -i /dev/video0 -flags +global_header -ac 1 -...
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FFmpeg streaming: problems with device name
I'm trying to stream web camera and microphone in Windows using FFmpeg. First, I get my devices names (to specify -i parameter in streaming command) using a command like this:
ffmpeg -list_devices ...
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Poor image quality and high CPU usage while streaming in high resolution using webcam and VLC in Linux
I'm trying to do some some streaming with a webcam, but so far the results are not good: everything I stream in 320x240 looks good, but as soon as I choose a higher resolution, the image quality gets ...
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Need a good mp3/internet radio organization system
So I feel that winamp alone doesn't work well for me. I have this one playlist that all kinds of stuff gets crammed into. I need a system (this can easily be 1 program or several):
Need to be able to....
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Streaming / Transcoding failed
I installed VLC, and works well apparently, on Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3, but when I streamed some video (.flv format) I get this error.-
Streaming / Transcoding failed
VLC could not open ...
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Maximum amount of users in a Skype (Free) Group Video chat
A group of users in my office would like to use Skype for some regular meetings when they are out of the office. Is there a hard limit to how many users can be in a group video call with the Basic (...
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Is there a way to stream wirelessly from a laptop to a TV?
I heard of such a thing like a box or a media player such thing that can connect wirelessly to stream movies from my laptop?
Is there such a thing that can do it? How is the latency on it? I have ...
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Simple webcam server [closed]
I am looking for a simple solution to turn a standard webcam on a Windows or Linux PC into a source for webcam images in a website hosted on another machine. Ideally it implements a minimal web server,...
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What is mp4v and mp4a?
When playing a MP4 file VLC tells me the video and audio codecs are mp4v and mp4a. The quality is good at low bitrates. However, the MP4 Streaming Faq tells me that mp4v means raw MPEG4 streams. What ...
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How can I play audio and video streaming in Firefox?
I've seen couple of sites that stream audio to my browser like SoundCloud and Grooveshark, but Firefox doesn't reproduce them in Linux. How can I reproduce these streams?
The console gets filled with ...
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FFMPEG: Stream a file with original playing rate
I want to stream a file to the network using ffmpeg in it's original frame rate; so I can play the generated UDP stream using some receiver client such as VLC. I used this command:
ffmpeg -i "...
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How do I find the video stream URL of ONVIF cameras manually?
I see that the ONVIF Device Manager finds the stream URL of compatible cameras. But how is it done? Is there a method for finding RTSP paths of ONVIF cameras?
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FFMPEG "Past duration 0.xxxxxx too large"
I'm recording an HLS streaming and I would like to save in a FLV Container.
My ffmpeg's cmd is:
/.../recorder/class/ffmpeg-2.6.1-32bit-static/./ffmpeg -i http://server/url/playlist.m3u8 -b:a 128K -...
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Error 1075: The dependency service does not exist or has been marked for deletion
I'm unable to stream content to my TV anymore from Windows Media Player. It worked fine until about a month and a half ago. The only thing I can think that I did was I turned some Windows features off ...
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Simple Webcam Streaming Software
I'm looking for some really simple software to broadcast video from a webcam.
PC is running Vista, web cam is a standard MS one.
All I'd like to be able to do is access the output from the camera in ...
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How to stream audio through pipewire from one Linux system to another?
Recently I have fully switched from pulseaudio to pipewire. Everything is great except that the documentation is not too clear on how to setup network streaming.
My goal is:
Stream microphone audio ...
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How to stream video from a source site like YouTube without a GUI?
I need to set up a computer to put video on several screens at the same time. To save as many resources as I can from the original computer (which is getting old), I have two questions:
Is it ...
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One codec to rule them all
I am streaming videos in my house via Windows Media Player Streaming, which is basically DLNA. So theoretically any DLNA compliant device can pick up the stream.
However, I've quickly found that ...
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How to Stream a static video file
Hi I am trying to stream a video file (located in local machine's hard disk.) to home network/LAN.
I am trying to do this from a week now. I tried all the resource I could find then then as a last ...
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What's the point of these "random" subdomains on CDN, etc?
I've noticed a lot when using CDNs (streaming videos, files, etc) you download from a terrible-looking random-looking URL that looks something like vl-in-f95.1e100.net or a184-26-136-74.deploy.static....
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Least CPU intensive way of streaming your screen on windows?
sometimes I like capturing my screen for others to see. Only thing: I am playing games while I do it.
I have tried a few streaming solutions where Windows Media Encoder coupled with my own Windows ...
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Is there a way to explore my WHS files via Xbox 360's Media Center app?
I know its a "Console" question but its really more of a Media Center Extender question!
I can access the data through the Video/Pictures options, but not through the Media Center App.
Also I can ...
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Broadcast a screen with ffmpeg via http
These quarantine days I was going to share my desktop to friends to explain them what is git in a practice. The problems are:
I use FreeBSD.
We are behind NATs. But I've got a VPS with VPN (Wireguard)...
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How to make FFmpeg wait for input
I have a program which saves game play in a file. I want to run FFmpeg and give the file as input for live streaming. Below is how I use FFmpeg to stream the video file.
%ffmpeg% -re -i %fileloc%%...
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Play audio over network with Windows 7?
I have a unique situation where I'd like to stream audio (ALL audio, not just mp3s, etc) from my laptop to another computer over the network. I live in a studio apartment and my laptop is my main ...
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Why am I getting lost packets in ffmpeg doing local RTP streaming?
I am trying to test ffmpeg streaming with RTP via local SDP file. So to start the stream I run
ffmpeg -re -thread_queue_size 4 -i .\bbb_streamable.flv -strict -2 -vcodec copy -an -f rtp rtp://127.0....
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Watch movie while downloading when using Chrome
I watch movies I download. I know that I can wait until the file is completely downloaded. But I usually don't do so.
I usually open the partially downloaded file by VLC or other player. It shows me ...
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What does the "mux" option in VLC media player do?
When I use VLC media player to stream a video file with the command line, I have to tell, what kind of "mux" I prefer:
vlc --network-caching=1000 -vvv <file> --sout '#http{mux=ts,dst=:8080}'
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How can I stream media from my desktop to other PCs on my home LAN?
I know that this is a basic question, and I'm aware of a similar one, but that answer does not appear to be evergreen - it's a simple link which says that VLC can do it, with no other explanation of ...
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How to preview unfinished torrent video files
I'm using uTorrent 2.0 and downloading videos. Some videos are large and I don't want to wait till their download is completed in order to preview. Is there a way I can preview the finished part of ...