Video streaming through LAN

[TheAngryMutant]

I got this old-ass comp on my LAN which is not even capable of decoding modern codecs like divx. So, I was wondering if I could stream the video from one of the better comps to it. The LAN is a 100BT, so it should be fast enough to carry fullscreen video.

Any ideas how I could do this?

 

[vash]

If the computer is that old, it won't decode any divx streams properly, even if its across the network. DivX encoding needs a decent CPU to decode back properly -- if the existing system cannot streaming from the drive, it cannot handle streaming across the network.

vash

 

[TheAngryMutant]

I was thinking in terms of transferring pure, uncompressed video data through the LAN. Somewhat like transferring .wav files instead of .mp3 files.

 

[vash]

<< I was thinking in terms of transferring pure, uncompressed video data through the LAN. Somewhat like transferring .wav files instead of .mp3 files. >>

For that speed, it should be able to serve as a file server easily.

vash

 

[ttn1]

I serve divx videos across my LAN all the time. I think FFmpeg will do what you want, but you need to switch to linux.

You can do what you want with linux and LTSP(linux terminal server project). It is what I am in the process of doing for a multimedia box. I have a small box which will fit right in in the entertainment center, but it has only a slow 180Mhz processor and I want to run without any fans or harddrives. With LTSP I use all the processing power of the server machine and the client machine just displays the video and sound.