Last day of the fights with the video broadcast. It was so fun, that in the end I hung the punching bag on the wall, and was hitting it for a while. It helped, although my hands hurt a little (some gloves might be a good idea).<\/p>\n
So now it will be ffmpeg, and some black magic to make it stay in sync. After a pile of combinations of ffmpeg, transcode, mjpegtools, mencoder\/mplayer, liblivemedia, vlc, vls, darwin streaming server, I couldn’t make something that would stream normal video stream through RTSP – the only one working was with ffpmeg with one of the example programs from liblivemedia, the quality was abysmal, and it kept on jagging. The solution for the future (which I’m planning on implementing, or finding someone to do it) is to make some small universal programs that could take any kind of AVI, find out it’s codecs, and send it to Darwin. The other one will be a modular interface to send the live stream frame by frame, to evade the jagging, and a codec that will keep the sound and video in sync without any screw-ups (the last one will be a fun task).<\/p>\n
Tomorrow’s the lecture on cryptography and its applications in the network security, let’s see what surprises has Velin for us (not including the one that he’s giving up smoking, I really hope he will make it :) ). We watched “The siege” tonight, a nice movie (although I have some notes on the organization of the attacks).<\/p>\n