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[Barti1987]

Hello guys,

I need help/direction/advise on the following:

1) I have a dvd movie I want to stream online.

Which breaks down to the following:

A) Which format to transfer the DVD to.
B) How to stream such format.

Please guide me with the programs, and how to. I have been looking around for almost 3 months, and still can not figure it out.

At one time I posted here, and was told to do MPG, which is not an actual streaming and the users were able to download.

Now, for the streaming I am looking for a Linux/Fedora solution, preferred free, but paid might also be good.

Thanks alot for any help anyone can offer,

Aziz

On the side note:

1) The DVDs I am using are not copyrighted.
2) Most DVDs I already have converted them to MPG

[Blapto]

Streaming mpeg can be done for free with Darwin Streaming Server.
Or you could just convert them to mpeg, and quicktime will play them as it downloads them, essentially streaming.

[thaibaud]

You can take a look at: ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php

[Barti1987]

thanks for your responses guys..

I have looked at all the sites above, and decided to go with VideoLan instead (much easier and more reliable)..

thanks again,

Peace,

[brianoz]

If you choose the right encoding, you don't need a streaming server. Windows simply starts playing the file as it downloads it. If you choose the wrong encoding, Windows helpfully downloads the entire file before it starts playing it.

[eth00]

www.videolan.org

VLC has a server component that should do this for you