Video streaming solution for p2p?

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Hi,

I am writing a windows client server application. I want the clients to be able to stream live webcam to each other. So far I have found some samples and managed to do it through the server but as soon as I have 4 users steraming it freeses. I believe it could be to do with the bandwidth usage of the video, so I am trying to find out how to just use the server to provide the initial connection but then for each client to support their own transmission/receiving of video.

I have tried searching for a solution online but with no luck. Maybe I'm using the wrong keywords

Any ideas please?

Posted 21-May-11 5:25am

milenalukic

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-05-21T18:59:00

Solution 2

I would advise you to use Open Source product VideoLAN, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoLAN[^], this is a media streaming and media conversion library and the application VLC (VideoLAN client) with enormously wide range of feature, including P2P streaming.

As you want to use C#, .NET wrapper is also available: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libvlcnet/[^].

—SA

Posted 21-May-11 18:59pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Espen Harlinn 22-May-11 11:07am

Good idea, my 5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-May-11 12:39pm

Thank you, Espen,
--SA

Christian Graus · Answer 2 · 2011-05-21T05:27:00

Solution 1

Are you running each video stream in a seperate thread ? Your basic issues are CPU and bandwidth, so long as the code is written right, I'm not sure there's a coding solution to those things.

Posted 21-May-11 5:27am

Christian Graus

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milenalukic 21-May-11 11:42am

I believe it would be a separate thread as each client who wants to receive requests the stream from the server.

What I would like to do is to use the client as its own video server, using the main server only for connecting/ getting IP address.