Streaming video and Proxy(?) Server

saint2e

Hey all,

I'm looking to setup a Server on my internal network which will essentially serve up a live stream it receives from the internet, and allows multiple computers on the LAN to view without them needing to go out to the internet and waste bandwidth. I'm not sure if a "Proxy Server" is the best term for this, so please forgive me if that is not the case.

Can such a thing be done? If so, could you recommend approaches to do this?

Kharnastus

hmmmm, not sure if this will work but it might be a good place to start researching. I set up a wirecast setup recently and I think it might be possible to use it to do this...

I think it would look like you stream it to one host computer that has wirecast running a screen cap of the system streaming it. Then using wirecast I know you can stream an SDP file created and shared to the clients you have on your LAN. The tricky part is getting that video stream capture in wirecast as I have not had need to try that one yet. Cool idea though, do tell if you find a solution.

Dhalphir

it sounds like it would be easier to hook multiple monitors to one computer to do this. You coould also remote-in to the host PC using the client PCs over the network.

Veevee

I'm not finding any software solution for what you're looking to do, but if what you want to stream is from well known websites such as hulu or netflix, a Roku box or something similar can be used as a capture device that sends the video to a computer that can then stream that video onto the web or a LAN.