On Oct 19, 11:38 am, Adam Albright <A...@ABC.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:03:21 -0700, markm75 <markm...@msn.com> wrote:
> >I've been contemplating building a dedicated video streaming server,
> >but the one thing that is holding me back is the inability to stream
> >DVD content from VIDEO_TS folders or iso's.. I want the content to
> >stream with menu's and have the dolby ac3 digital surround sound.
>
> >I've looked into alternatives to media player extensions onto the 360,
> >such as Tversity.. but tversity will only play one vob at a time...
>
> I've never seen it done. That of course doesn't mean it can't be, but
> I would think it would be a tough nut to crack. What's inside a
> Video_TS folder is a COLLECTION of VOB files and other supporting
> files needed to make some DVD player play the contents of the DVD
> using some type of menu system. One VOB file will be the main menu, if
> you have them, others will be some sub menu, still others are
> individual video files the menu system links to. The concept behind
> streaming is to stream a SINGLE file, not a file that controls other
> files.
>
> If I was doing this if you intention is to make this available off
> some public web site, what I would try would be to mimic the DVD's
> control structure in your HTML markup making a link for each video,
> then at least you should be able to stream one video from the Video_TS
> folder at a time which might serve your purposes.
>
> While that would work if you're intending to do something like this
> for general consumption where you have no idea of the capacity of your
> typical visitor you're going to run into the problem that many of your
> visitors won't have a MPEG-2 decoder on their system, so they won't be
> able to see the content you want to stream.
>
> A better solution might be to duplicate what's in the Video_TS folder
> and convert to a more user friendly Web format like WMV. Another issue
> would be file size. If you're trying to stream a true DVD that's based
> on MPEG-2, the files will be huge and nobody is likely to sit around
> waiting for them to stream. Even if they did, only a fraction of the
> audience would have a fast enough broadband connection to view the
> files properly, most would at best get very jerky playback. Then of
> course if you did this the consumed resources you ate up if you have
> any traffic at all visiting your site you might get a big fat bill
> from your provider expecting you to pay for all the extra resources
> you ate up.
>
> So several practical things wrong with your idea.
My main purpose would be to stream through an extender on the xbox
360.. i wouldnt want this ability unless i could maintain the 5.1
digital surround sound though.