want to begin video streaming programming

[nalooti]

Hi,

as a telecom/network engineer, i worked as a soft programmer during 10 years, developing device drivers (MAC, Transport, ...) in varius Unix kernel on x86 (Solaris, SCO, ...) in C language.
Since almost 10 years ago, i stopped programming and began working as a network architecte.

I want to start again programming but this time on audio/video and don't know where to start. I'm thinking of some training course but even don't know what should i choose!

All of this is because of a personal project dealing with streaming audio/video contents from PC to a standalone box (maybe under embedded Linux ?). So i have to learn various multimedia environment (Windows, Linux, ...), APIs, programming language. The project should be platform-independent (or easily portable to other platforms).
I don't need programming logic training but need to know what environment (OS, SDK) should I learn, what platform (DirectX, DirectShow, Java, ...), etc. to become familiar with video programming environments.
In short what "keywords" should i use to search for such trainings ?
Thanks for your help
nalooti

[Shinigami-Sama]

+1
I'm also interested in seeing the basics of this

[DoC hEx]

Why not checkout the VLC project as they do that stuff, or even MythTV.

Also what do you want to do, you could just take a standard file, say AVI and then transfer it in logical segments across a link or do some more interesting stuff like re-encode on the fly. VLC does all that stuff.