Video over LAN?

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Chaos Master

Hello.

Suppose I have a video capture/TV tuner card in a machine that is in a
LAN with this machine I am using.

I would like to watch the images that the video capture card is
capturing, on this machine I'm using. Sort of "streaming" on a LAN.

Q: is there any simple program for doing this video over LAN? I don't
think VNC would work for a good video frame rate.

It would be for using a PC to get image from security camera and watch
the capture on my main PC.

I want this:

CAMERA
|||||
PC WITH -----------------------------> MY MAIN PC
CAPTURE CARD VIDEO STREAM OVER LAN TCP/IP

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Chaos Master schreef:
Suppose I have a video capture/TV tuner card in a machine that is in a
LAN with this machine I am using.

I would like to watch the images that the video capture card is
capturing, on this machine I'm using. Sort of "streaming" on a LAN.

Q: is there any simple program for doing this video over LAN? I don't
think VNC would work for a good video frame rate.

It would be for using a PC to get image from security camera and watch
the capture on my main PC.

I want this:

CAMERA
|||||
PC WITH -----------------------------> MY MAIN PC
CAPTURE CARD VIDEO STREAM OVER LAN TCP/IP
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http://videolan.org/
 
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Cousin CM ....

I don't have any personal experience with this program,
but following is what the Debian Linux package manager
has to say about it ....

I think this is the same prog that Paul and Jem
referred to ....

sk@cpq1 : ~ $ apt-cache show vls

Package : vls
Priority : optional
Section : net
Installed-Size : 1016 KB
Maintainer : Sam Hocevar (Debian packages)
Architecture : i386
Version : 0.5.4+cvs20031028-4
.... : ....
Size : 377322
MD5sum : 7b2ddfba3e7ae017c7fcfa791fff70b5

Description : lightweight MPEG and DVD
video streaming server

VideoLAN is a free streaming software solution.

This is VLS, the VideoLAN Server.

It can stream MPEG files or DVDs over the network,
in unicast or multicast.

It also supports Digital Video Broadcasting cards.

VLS is a lightweight solution that does not support
as many file formats, transcoding features and control
interfaces as VLC, but uses a lot less processing power.

If VLS fills your requirements, it is the recommended
streaming server.

Otherwise, please see the vlc package for a more
complete solution.


On a Debian-based Linux distribution
installation would be as simple as
the following command line ....

# apt-get install vls
 
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