Re: Status RTSP

Bart Kerver <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.videolan.vls.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
VLS-team,

>>RTSP is none exsisting I guess Loïc Minier was talking about RTCP/RTP 
>>which is different from RTSP.

I see you will be working on a VoD solution somwhere in the project 
(http://www.mburns.fr.st/cdc_videolan/cdc.html). At the moment I have a 
management tool available, I call it DVLSM - Distributed VideoLAN-Server 
Management. It is a wey to manage several VLS servers, start and stop 
streams and query a database for content (eg).

I need RTSP too to make streamcontrol possible. I asked the VLC guys for 
a way to be able to start VLC by a minetype (which doesn't work) as a 
first step to automate the to start a stream using the webinterface 
(fire VLC with the parameters generated by DVLSM). So far this feature 
is not supported. I have looked into using an external executable to 
fire-up VLC and send the addional paramaters (fe PERL).

DVLSM is momentary not publicly available on the network, since VLS 
makes a DoS possible by starting a stream to an host and logging out (a 
stream will be started to the IP-adres requesting the stream). So I need 
a way to control the streams on a server level to complete the VoD 
solution. RTSP is therefore the way to go!

If there is a first implementation of RTSP available I'd love to test it.

Best regards,
Bart

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	  <meta name="Keywords" content="Webbased configuration of a distributed set of VideoLAN Servers" />
	  <title>DVLSM - Distributed VideoLANServer Management</title>
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	  </head><br><br><h1>Welcome to Distributed VideoLAN Server Manager</h1><br>
			    
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<p>
<h3>What is DVLMS</h3>
DVLMS stands for <i>D</i>istributed <i>V</i>ideo<i>L</i>AN <i>S</i>erver <i>M</i>anagement. DVLMS is a webbased interface to control 
several <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vls/">VideoLAN-servers</a> distributed through a network with the ease of a click of a mouse. DVLSM makes it very easy for end-users to
get access to videodata available on some VLS server without having to learn the VLS command interface. DVLSM is not just build to
manage VLS-servers, but to create a Video-on-Demand solution for <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/">VideoLAN MediaPlayer (VLC)</a> and <a href="http://www.aminocom.com/">Amino SetTopBoxes</a> (and so on...). Just install the
source code, compile, start the VLS server and let the DVLSM add a servers content to the system by the click of a link.
</p>

<p>
<h3>Requirements to run DVLSM</h3>
DVLMS consists out of two parts: a interface module to operate within VLS server and a webbased portal. The interface module
is basically an interface for the webservice to talk to a regular VLS server. The webbased portal is a set of PHP scripts to
communicate with the database backend and the DVLSM interface module. All DVLSM requires to manage a system, is internet access to the machine and an account to control VLS.<br>
</p>

<p>
<h3>DVLSM features</h3>
DVLSM is currently supporting these features:<br>
<ul>
<li>open source using standards like PHP, Apache, mySQL and VLS CVS;</li>
<li>native VLS C++ code, available as an interface module;</li>
<li>fully database driven (mySQL);</li>
<li>unlimited amount of VLS servers with server specific credentials such as username, password and port</li>
<li>overview of active VLS servers;</li>
<li>overview of assets (with its provider) for a specific VLS server;</li>
<li>overview of all programs running on a specific VLS server;</li>
<li>auto learn content available on a server by spidering the programs</li>
<li>start a program on unicast, multicast both IPv4 and IPv6;</li>
<li>all native VLS command available through a simple query.</li>
</ul>
DVLSM is will support these features in a future release:<br>
<ul>
<li>(network-) load balancing of assets over multiple servers;</li>
<li>enhanced control over VLS core, such as killing dead channels;</li>
<li>ability to add programs;</li>
<li>ability to choose HTTP-progressive download as an alternative stream;</li>
<li>make it available as a webservice (XML-RPC);</li>
<li>user based profiles and content protection;</li>
<li>additional information on assets;</li>
<li>search for assets over all servers.</li>
</ul>

<p>
<h3>Configuration and installation of DVLSM</h3>
Soon to come...<br><br>
To get the DVLSM source running in VLS, make some adaptations to the Makefile.opts and /core/buffers.cpp and /core/buffers.h. <br>
To get the webbased portal running, install <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> with <a href="http://www.php.net/">PHP</a> and <a href="http://www.mysql.com/">mySQL</a> support.
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