Streaming server/real-time encoding

[fluor]

Hi!

I installed the shoutcast server, that encodes my mp3's in realtime and I can share them with my friends. So why can't I do this with my friends sharing my videos or videoclips? I have searched the net, and I've not found anything except tricky Windows Media services that needs to be installed on Windows 2000 Server or something like that.

Well my system is not a server, and I do not want to install 2000 Server just for sharing some vids with my friends... So what do I do?

My wish list for doom9:
- Make a forum where topics for streaming video is discussed
- A software developer that makes a program like this (open-sourced preferably)
- A guide featuring streaming (I found NO HITS on streaming at the full doom9 site)

I guess this is a completely new area that needs to be covered, before every web-admin have to buy expensive Microsoft products just to make some stupid streaming of his videos. It cannot be THAT complex to stream data.

[fluor]

I've done a little research on this.

FFmpeg Multimedia System
FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library. FFmpeg is developped under Linux, but it can compile under most OSes, including Windows.
I did not manage to find win32 compiled executables.
http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/

VideoLAN
The VideoLAN project aims at setting up a complete solution for streaming video on a network. Today, it is specialised in high quality video (MPEG 1 and 2) streamed over a Local Area Network (LAN). But it can already be used on a Wide Area Network (WAN) thanks to the multicast technology.
http://www.videolan.org/