Re: Send live stream over LAN

On Fri, 6 May 2005 07:04:02 -0700, Osnat wrote:

> I am trying to send a live stream where the video source comes from a camera
> and I handle it with DirectX so I get the frames one by one as a buffer at a
> certain rate -by SampleCB - is a callback function that returns the frames
> from the video stream.
> I would like to create a stream out of these frames and send it live to a
> client over LAN.
> Can I use Windows Media SDK for this purpose?
> Any other suggestions?

You can use the Windows Media Format SDK with your own network code, the
Windows Media Encoder SDK, or DirectShow with custom sink/source filters.

The Encoder SDK is very simple, but has high latency and you can't use the
stream for anything else while it is being encoded.

DirectShow is the most flexible approach, as you can split the feed for a
local and remote preview. The DSNetwork samples demonstrates sending data
over the network as a sink/source filter.

DirectShow is an "extras" download in the Feb 2005 DXSDK or is part of the
April Platform SDK (2003 Server SP1).
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