VLC Streaming

arcko

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/streaming.html

Redhat EL
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-redhat.html
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge#head-5aabf02717d5b6b12d47edbc5811404998926a1b
http://www.linuxdiyf.com/bbs/thread-74155-1-1.html

Streaming Howtos
http://serverfault.com/questions/288137/how-to-stream-live-video-from-a-linux-server
http://acanac.ca/VLC-Server.htm
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/VideoLAN-HOWTO.html#AEN492
http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch04.html#id349864
http://www.engadget.com/2005/11/29/how-to-stream-almost-anything-using-vlc/

Command Line Interface
http://www.videolan.org/doc/vlc-user-guide/en/ch04.html

vlc -vvv /home/vlc/videos/BeautyAndTheBeast3DMoviefone.flv --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst=76.10.222.73:8080/video}'

h264+acc
//vcodec=h264,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100

vlc -vvv /home/vlc/videos/BeautyAndTheBeast3DMoviefone.flv --sout '#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,acodec=mpga,vb=800,ab=128,deinterlace}:rtp{mux=ts,dst=76.10.222.73,port=88888,sdp=sap://,name="TestStream"}'

http://www.wikihow.com/Stream-Your-Webcam

CPU usage / bandwidth
http://hex.ro/wp/blog/vlc-transcoding-and-cpu-usage-bandwidth/
http://wiki.videolan.org/Simple_Stream_VLC_to_Website
The more system CPU power available the better!
As a minimum The method above will just about work with a video size of 384x288 streamed
from VLC using a totally dedicated server at 800MHz cpu + 512 MB RAM with good hardware in good light.


m3u
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/961