video streaming

[wcb4]

question for all you good folks out there, and I am sure that someone has played with this idea before..... I have the AIW radeon, and am running win98SE (machine can dual boot into 2k, but I have never installed any of my toy software under the 2k environment, I use it strictly for work). Is there any way to stream the incoming video to another machine either on my lan or via the internet (I realize the bandwidth it would take, but I'm only talking about streaming 160x120 or so at 15fps) just something so that I could stream the input from my home machine and tune in at work...

any suggestions?

[ntserver545]

First off is to get an nt server box and have windows media server installed on the same box and configured to bind tcp ip address to you broadband connection and when you get to work open the windows media player, just type in your ip address of your server and it will stream it to you. If you want to use real audio, the go to real audio site and download real server basic demo and do the same setup. That is the way I done it to my server at home. Hope this answers your question

[wcb4]

it answers it...unfortunately.... I guess my only option is to install the video card software in the 2k partition and use that (thinking about going to XP....anyone know if real video's server works with XP?)

[wcb4]

for those interested in doing this......

microsoft has a free tool called windows media encoder which runs under 98 as well....it encodes incoming streams (as windows media 7, 8 or mpeg4 standard) and acts as a rtsp server... it can also encode existing files into windows wma files.

It claims to not want to work with the card (the whole vfw/wdm driver issue) so you can also download the media encoder tools, which contains a capture program....run that, put it in preview mode but do not capture...then run the media encoder and choose default video source and not the rage theatre source and you can stream tilyour hearts content.

I found that streaming a 150k stream allows me to nicely watch my television while I am at work... The addition of vnc to get into my home machine to change the channel works wonders....

enjoy!