RE: [PLUG] Video Stream "forwarder"??? (possibly off topic?)

[jazzman@exdomain.org]

Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking, except I'm not sure if there's 
anything I have to do special when a client first connects... is there 
some kind of header I need to send? Does anyone know enough about .asf 
streams to point me in the right direction? 

Thanks again all :)
Marc


 On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, George Gallen 
wrote:

> ok. What about....
> 
> Setup a perl program that...
> 
> OPEN camera for Read - non-blocking
> OPEN /dev/null for Write - non-blocking
> 
> Setup a Loop to READ to from camera and write to /dev/null
> Inside that loop check for any for any connections, and write to each 
>    connection that needs it.
> 
> Now. I have no clue how you would know when to route the feed
>   to a connection....but at least you could have a constant read with
>   the data being available realtime, without having to store the data
> 
> George
> 
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> 
> I thought about that, but I was hoping for something more along the lines 
> of what I mentioned... partially because I'd like it to work that way and 
> partially because if there isn't something to do that then I like the 
> challenge of actually making that possible even if it makes very little 
> sense to do so.
> 
> And actually, you'd be surprised at what ppl find relaxing. Being one who 
> keeps several active aquariums I know quite a few ppl who have expressed 
> interest in checking out the camera at various times... It's a matter of 
> personal taste I guess...
> 
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