Building streaming networks with VLC
Jean-Paul Saman
M2X
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The VideoLAN project started at L'Ecole Central des Paris in 1996. Its goal was to develop high quality streaming for the Campus network. In 2001 the project went Open Source. Since then a complete High Quality Streaming solutions was available under the GPL.

In this presentation VLC is used to setup a broadcast, unicast, multicast and Video On Demand network. Streaming multimedia content over a network is full of challenges. Firewalls can be in the way, network equipment has limited capabilities (cheap routers don't support multicast). Having a 100 Mbps network card (NIC) doesn't automatically mean the network is configured to use all of it.

Jean-Paul Saman is a consultant, senior software architect and engineer with 10 years of experience in developing multimedia, embedded and networking systems. He has worked for various companies in Research and Development jobs as well as in productizing software. Since August 2004 he works for his own company M2X, that provides commercial services for Multimedia, Networking and Embedded systems using Open Source software. Further more he actively contributes to Open Source Software projects such as: "Das Universal bootloader" (u-boot), VideoLAN project and sometimes the Linux Kernel.


Last modified: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:30:48 +0200