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Install Needed Software

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list --output-

document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

sudo apt-get -q update

sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring

sudo apt-get -q update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo aptitude install apache2 openssh-server samba smbfs php5-ffmpeg libapache2-mod-php5

ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-52 vlc build-essential

Install Darwin Streaming Server

sudo addgroup --system qtss

sudo adduser --system --no-create-home --ingroup qtss qtss

wget http://static.macosforge.org/dss/downloads/DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Source.tar

tar -xvf DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Source.tar

wget http://dss.macosforge.org/trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6/dss-6.0.3.patch

patch -p0 < dss-6.0.3.patch

wget http://dss.macosforge.org/trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6/dss-hh-20081021-1.patch

patch -p0 < dss-hh-20081021-1.patch

cd DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Source

mv Install Install.orig

wget http://dss.macosforge.org/trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6/Install

chmod +x Install

./Buildit

sudo ./Install

wget http://dss.macosforge.org/trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6/darwin-streaming-server

chmod +x darwin-streaming-server

sudo cp darwin-streaming-server /etc/init.d/darwin-streaming-server

sudo update-rc.d darwin-streaming-server defaults


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At this point, you should browse to http://servername:1220/ and finish setting up Darwin Streaming

Server. Just follow the prompts, it is pretty straight forward.

Next, test that you can stream an existing file by pointing your media player at

rtsp://servername/sample_100kbit.mp4 or rtsp://servername/sample_50kbit.3gp depending on

your player. If neither of these work, stop here and figure out what went wrong.

Testing VLC

Make sure the current user can write to /usr/local/movies.

Find the video you want to stream.

vlc /path/to/video --

sout='#transcode{soverlay,ab=48,samplerate=44100,channels=1,acodec=mp4a,vcodec=h264,width=

512,height=288,vfilter=\"canvas{width=512,height=288,aspect=16:9}\",fps=25,vb=384,venc=x264{vb

v-bufsize=200,partitions=all,level=12,no-cabac,subme=7,threads=4,ref=2,mixed-refs=1,bframes=0,min-keyint=1,keyint=50,qpmax=51}}:gather:rtp{mp4a-latm,dst=127.0.0.1,port-

audio=20000,port-video=20002,ttl=127,sdp=file:/usr/local/movies/movie.sdp}'

These settings work for streaming to the Motorola DROID. You may need to tweak them for your

destination device.

Once you have started VLC, point your media player at rtsp://servername/movie.sdp. You should see

your video playing.

Set Up Apache

Browse to http://servername/ to ensure your Apache setup is working. If you don't see a message

saying "It Works!", stop and figure out what went wrong.

Download the index.php file from this site, and place it in /var/www.

Restart Apache to make sure PHP is loaded: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload.

Ensure your www-data user can write to /usr/local/movies.

Edit the index.php file: set the $basedir variable to be the path to your videos. Set the $transcode

variable to be whatever you needed to tweak the vlc settings to be.

Try it all out

Browse to http://servername/index.php.

Browse until you find a video to play.

Click the video; this will start VLC in the background, transcoding the video.

Click the Watch Now link. This will open the video in your player. Be sure to click the stop button

when you are done, otherwise VLC will continue to run, using up CPU cycles.


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Limitations

This only allows one video to be transcoded and streamed at a time. This works great for personal

use.

Cannot stream DVDs yet.

Cannot skip, fast-forward, rewind, etc.

Troubleshooting

Your firewall needs the following ports open: TCP 554, UDP 6970:6999.

If you are behind a NAT firewall, you need to change the following line in streamingserver.xml:

to (replace 123.45.67.8 with your public IP address):

123.45.67.8

The streaming server must be restarted in order for this to take effect. If you do not have a static IP

address then the streaming server needs to be reconfigured and restarted every time your IPaddress changes.

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