Re: [Audio-video] RMS in Frascati on May 11th

[John Sullivan]

Enrico Nardi <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi.
> RMS will give a speech in Frascati (Rome - Italy)
> on May 11th.
> We would like to see if it feasible to do a direct stream
> of his speech. Our multimedia group will not do it because of wrong
> software.
> So if we will manage to do it will be something "home made".
> By now we know how to stream with VLC from one machine to another
> machine  giving the remote  IP.
> What we do not know how to do, is how to put a link on a web page,
> that will directly open the stream. Is there a way to do this ? Can you help
> ?

Icecast2 can use VLC as a source. Icecast2 then provides you with the
streaming URL to give to people. It is free sotfware and not difficult
to set up.

VLC can also run as a streaming server on its own, that other hosts can
connect to.

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