Starting with Video Streaming

[Dumboo]

hi there

i was looking forward for some information on starting with my own Video Streaming Server, but dont know where to start with.....confused

i have started doing research on the internet but m not able to find good resources, was looking forward for some suggestions, on from where to get started,

regards :-)

-Dumboo

[unmei]

i'm not into it, but the guys here www.videolan.org (http://www.videolan.org/) sure are. you might watch or contact them :)

[Valiant]

i can help you a little.
did a webcam live streaming server/client in windows c++ (MFC, direct show).

do you wanna do it all from scratch?
what language? ....?

[Dumboo]

hi there
let me brief out little more, i want to create a MPEG4 Video streaming Server and Client for my Final year project, so i want to do every thing from scratch,

i m looking forward for some good sugestions and tips to create a MPEG4 Video streaming Server and MPEG4 Client, i m a complete newbie in this, i have started doing reserch on the internet, but was not able to get through much of them :-(

i m using Borland C++ Builder as my development tool

by the way can u help me with MPEG4 CODEC, r there any ready made well documented, libraries which i can use in my project ??

hoping for some good response :-)

-Dumboo

[Valiant]

which platform? windows or linux/mac os x?
what's your main focus on?
- just the application?
- network code?
- encode/decode?

what libraries do you mean? thought you wanted to do all from scratch ;)

if you wanna do it for windows, i'd recommend DirectX (DirectShow). You can write your own DirectShow filters, put all your encode/decode code into directshow filters.

[Dumboo]

hi there,

thanks for responding so soon :-)

the C++ Builder is available for Win32 platform only, so Win32 :-)
my focus is on encoding /decoding the images and sound CODEC.

i require some information to get started with the CODEC, which help me extract the sound and images from the MPEG4 file,

i was looking for some freeware Libraries for MPEG4 CODEC, but i m ready for writing completely from scratch also, ultimately my goal is to learn as much as i can from this project :-)

once again thanks 4 ur time :-)

hope to get some good advice

-Dumboo

[Latexxx]

There is one implementation of almost everything: http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/

[Valiant]

application:
you gotta decide whether you "just" code filters in directx to use them with existent players as windows media player,... or write your own player too.
for the server, you gotta decide whether to create a GUI or do the whole thing in a command line executable.
if you wanna create your own server/client apps, what about MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes)? I didn't like it to use MFC but there is plenty documentation in the www for MFC. -> http://www.codeguru.com/cpp_mfc/index.shtml
an alternative is QT. I'd recommend using QT. -> http://www.trolltech.com/

video streaming:
there are a couple of good links on this page:
http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/projects/videocm/
especially: http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/papers/feamster-thesis.pdf (network code,...)
mpeg 4 standards: http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-4.htm
open divx: http://www.projectmayo.com/projects/index.php
directshow application programming: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/directx9_c/directx/htm/settingupthebuildenvironment.asp

if that's not what you expected, let me know.

cheers - andy

[Dumboo]

hi there,

thankyou guys for your time :-)

i will surely go through all of the above links,
i hope this give me a kick start

once again thankyou very much

-Dumboo :-)