Building a Simple Streaming Media Server? 51
neomage86 asks: "I'm looking for a simple Network Jukebox. I want to be able to stream media from a Windows (it has to be Windows for other school work) server to remote machines over a LAN (only 1-2 clients at a time). I want to be able to choose the song that's playing from the remote machine, video would be nice, but not necessary, and it should be free (as in beer, I'm a student). Any ideas?"
"For some quick background, I'm an undergrad with a desktop PVR with several hundred gigs of media on it. I also have a laptop, and use computer labs fairly often. Anywhere on campus, I can expect to get a minimum of 10 megabits/s between my current machine and the PVR. My first thought was just Windows file sharing, but it breaks often (I'm not sure why, I have an Apache web server, and FileZilla ftp server running on the same machine that never go down) and I can't install Samba on the Solaris lab machines. Ideally the client should be web based, so I don't need to download anything to receive, but that is optional."
Check out VLC.... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Check out VLC.... (Score:2)
You CAN'T pick anything from the remote machine in a VLC streaming session - you get to look/listen to what's served.
What this guy is looking for is some form of file sharing rather than media streaming.
Re:Check out VLC.... (Score:2)
Re:Check out VLC.... (Score:5, Informative)
As a matter of fact you can - it has an HTTP remote control interface, at port 8080 by default. See http://videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html#i
peercast.org (Score:3, Informative)
iTunes (Score:2)
Streaming across a LAN, free, media jukebox, runs on Windows.
Re:iTunes (Score:2)
just for clarification (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Weird Arbitrary Requirements (Score:1)
Re:Weird Arbitrary Requirements (Score:2)
A friend of mine does it this way... (Score:2)
GNUMP3d? (Score:2, Interesting)
GNUMP3d [gnump3d.org] is a perl based streaming server which allows you to share a music/video/multimedia archive across a LAN.
Whilst it's designed on Linux machines and only sporadically tested under Windows it should do the job you want - point it at a directory with your media files in it, then fire up a browser to choose your songs / stream away.
Failing that Andromedia [turnstyle.com] should do a good job if you have PHP on your Windows version of Apache. Their personal edition is cheap, and I think there's a free version somebo
Re:GNUMP3d? (Score:1)
Aside from the $35 price tag (which almost anyone should be able to afford), this software should be exactly what he is looking for.
Andromeda also has an ASP copy in case you don't want to have PHP.
Unless I can find something within a short period of time, I'll probably be getting myself a personal lic
Re:GNUMP3d? (Score:1)
It's similar to Andromeda but free and PHP only.
http://pancake.org/zina/index.html
Re:GNUMP3d? (Score:1)
I was hoping to advertise the first one more - cos that's the one I wrote ;)
I just added the Andromedia link to be more balanced and because it seems like a nice piece of software too!
Some web based streams (Score:2, Informative)
Or if you can write some php code, it's not so hard to write one up yourself.
Just list the files in a music directory and create playlist(pls or m3u [winamp.com]) upon click.
Re:Some web based streams (Score:2)
netjuke (Score:3, Informative)
Been doing it myself for years (Score:3, Informative)
I suppose the only downside to this is that if you ever DO end up with multiple people using it at the same time, they can only watch/listen to the same thing. Though maybe you'd become something of a college net-radio operator, who knows?
SlimServer (Score:5, Interesting)
I've only used it on Mac, but it works very well. You can select media from a web interface.
free beer wanted!! (Score:1)
Hell !! i am a student and I dont ask for free beer.. maybe i shud start doing that!!
RealNetworks (Score:1)
Edna (Score:1)
The simple solution (Score:2)
Is the content on this media server going to stuff you own or have permission to distribute?
Re:The simple solution (Score:2)
Would that affect Apache's ability to serve the files?
Darwin Streaming Server (Score:2)
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/stream
My understanding is that it can stream MPEG files, and also pretty much anything that QuickTime can play.
Hope that helps.
-Ster
xp rdp (Score:2)
Assuming the host is a Pro machine, it's simple.
Connect to the machine using the latest version of the MS-RDP client (the one from Windows XP, mstsc.exe)
You have an option to "bring sound to this system", "leave sound at remote system" or "do not play sound"
just bring it to your system. It's recompressed somehow, I think to 128 kbps, but its decent for most listening.
QoS (Score:2)
That'll be until every other student is doing this (unless your net techs have given you the bandwidth and some QoS guarantee)...
WinAmp's shoutCAST (Score:1)
Beyond simple (Score:3, Informative)
Iceflow (Score:2)
It only deals with music, but Icecast apparently supports video streaming now, so with some changes it could support video too, I imagine.
little old asp page (Score:2)
Re:little old asp page (Score:1)
unless slashcode broke it entirely, it should work.. three things to configure at top of script. Otherwise, it works as advertised
http://slashdot.org/~wcb4/journal/99468
couple of things to note... since windows xp uses folder.jpg to create thumbnails for folders and uses it as album art for playing mp3, the code looks to see if that file exists and uses it for thumbnails....
If you put a file called folder.nfo or allmusic.txt (reviews or other info) in a folder, it will appe
Jinzora? (Score:2, Insightful)
http://www.jinzora.org/ [jinzora.org]
For musuc (Score:2)
A shoutcast server
and wwwinamp from halo 8....
MP3Beamer (Score:1)