[ale] Streaming media for Linux

[Nathan Underwood]

Aha, I knew someone here would know what I was talking about :-D. 
Darwin is the one that I used.  Very easy to setup, configure, etc.

Nathan
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 17:17, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Friday 29 August 2003 12:22 pm, George Carless wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations for streaming stuff from a Linux
> > machine?  I've some rather large video files which I'd like to serve
> > from our intranet box (which runs RedHat), and I'm not sure what the
> > best approach might be.  Would streaming be more or less server load
> > than just letting people download encoded mpeg files?  
> 
> The servers that I know of are Darwin from Apple and the Helix server from 
> Real Networks.  Both are open source.
> 
> The difference between streaming and downloading is mostly bandwidth 
> utilization.  If they download they get the bits as fast as you can push 
> them there, which may fill up your pipe and slow down other operations.  
> With streaming you send the files out only as they are needed.  Streaming 
> also usually enables pausing the stream when the client presses the pause 
> button, freeing up all that bandwidth.  That doesn't happen with a 
> download.
> 
> Michael
> 
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