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Back to newsThursday 01, January 01:33
Linux developing
Well my hosts have now decided that they don't offer compiler support after all. Pah.
Luckily for me they are running RedHat enterprise, and my distro is Fedora 5 so hopefully they should be pretty compatible
So now I am developing on my garage linux machine. At first I was just using gcc over a secure shell, but I've finally bitten the bullet today and installed a proper dev environment (KDevelop), and am using it remotely via XMing (Windows X-Server)
So C++ coding of the cgi stream server has begun. It's fairly slow progress at the mo due to my unfamiliarity with coding for linux. Having to read up a lot about IPC mechanisms and the like, and to be sure I understand it all enough that I don't eat resources on my host's server (Leaving orphaned processes / pipes / whatever lying around) Still, I am pleased with how it is going so far.
No time estimates yet I'm afraid. All depends on how much time I get to devote to it. A wild guess would be around 2 weeks
James 2006-09-25 14:16:05
I'd be interested to test your streaming h.264 video. I have cats and would like to stream video of the cats to other interested folks and friends via H.264 on an apache2 server. I use gentoo. wireless@tampabay.rr.omJeremy 2006-09-25 21:10:50
<p>Hi James.</p><p>Well, as I mentioned I've given up on H.264 since there seems no clean way of playing it in people's browsers at the mo :-/. I have fallen back to MPEG4 ASP. This is a lot less processor intensive to encode too, but obviously eats more bandwidth. I have uploaded a couple of test clips for you. One is H.264, and one is ASP. Both identical scenes at 16kb/sec, although in practice this seems to fluctuate between 10 and 20 kb/sec.</p> <p>(Obviously you'll need something that can play these. Quicktime will work with these static files)</p> <p><a href="test4-asp.mp4">ASP</a></p> <p><a href="test4-h264.mp4">H.264</a></p>