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A Streaming Video question

Lance Kent
Registered User
Join date: 28 Jan 2005
Posts: 18
02-16-2006 18:07
I have no idea if it's possible.. but can someone have a movie file on their PC, and get a program to host it from their PC alone, no uploading it onto another server, and get a link to run it through Secondlife... in short, stream a file from their PC to watch on an SL TV. Not many people would be there, and my connection is decent enough that I don't think there would be a problem. Any feedback would be great.
Catherine Omega
Geometry Ninja
Join date: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 2,053
02-16-2006 20:31
This isn't technically a scripting question, but I'll bite:

Yes, you can run a web server on your computer, assuming your ISP is cool with that. However, it will take up a lot of bandwidth and may prohibit you from using SL if other people are streaming content from you. Additionally, home broadband connections generally don't have very high capacity upstream limits, so even if you can stream something to someone, you might not be able to stream to very many people.

If I were going to do this, I'd use Apache as the web server, and DynDNS for my DNS support. (so that when your IP changes, your site address remains the same)
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Lance Kent
Registered User
Join date: 28 Jan 2005
Posts: 18
02-16-2006 20:33
I figured it wasn't exactly a scripting question, but I figured people script the TVs to run special things or certain IP addys, I'd atleast give it a shot. Much thanks for the info; I'd only have all of 3 people watching the TV at the time, so it wouldn't need much... I'll test out what you suggested, thanks again