Linux network server

Video streaming server

Joonas Niemi, Enrique Sainz, Victor Diges

General description

Video streaming server

On demand and live streaming services

Possible usages in organizations web pages

Specifications

CentOS 5 Linux distribution

FluMotion streaming service

Apache web server

ffdshow media libraries

Dependencies (gcc, Fluxbox for GUI)

Setting up the server

Create new virtual machine under VMware ESXi

Boot the CentOS installation

Install and set up the system:Create users for the members of the groupConfigure ssh not have root remote login, only regular users

Install Apache and other packages with ‘yum install’ and ‘yum search’

Install window manager Fluxbox (needed for Flumotion GUI configuration)

Configuring the streaming serverFluMotion needed to install manually with dependencies as it is not found from CentOS repositories:- Install Gstreamer and plugins:yum install gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins

good -Install Python and extension:yum install python pygtk2 pycairo python-twisted-web python-devel gstreamer-python-Install Perl and XML parseryum install perl perl-XML-Parser (case sensitive)

Configuring the server 2

Download and install kiwi (not in the repositories either)wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/kiwi/1.9/kiwi-1.9.26.tar.gztar xfv kiwi-1.9.26.tar.gzcd kiwi-1.9.26sudo python setup.py install

Download and install flumotion streaming server:

wget http://www.flumotion.net/src/flumotion/flumotion-0.8.0.tar.gztar xfv flumotion-0.8.0.tar.gzcd flumotion-0.8.0chmod +x configure./configuremakesudo make install- Launch the flumotion GUI (needs a graphical session): flumotion-

admin

Flumotion configuration

Outcome

Full working Linux server

Web portal

Broadcasting video on demand

Streaming a live video channel

ProblemsFinding a good server-web player couple

Flumotion nor many of its dependencies were not on yum repositories

Codecs

Configuring a web video player

Purpose of the project

Video streaming was something that none of us had tried to do before

Get a video streaming channel accessible through a webpage

Add to that webpage on-demand video playback