Install Needed Software sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/`lsb_release -cs`.list --outputdocument=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.

list sudo apt-get -q update sudo apt-get --yes -q --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring sudo apt-get -q update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo aptitude install apache2 openssh-server samba smbfs php5-ffmpeg libapache2-mod-php5 ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-52 vlc build-essential Install Darwin Streaming Server sudo addgroup --system qtss sudo adduser --system --no-create-home --ingroup qtss qtss wget http://static.macosforge.org/dss/downloads/DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Source.tar tar -xvf DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Source.tar wget http://dss.macosforge.org/trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6/dss-6.0.3.patch patch -p0 < dss-6.0.3.patch wget http://dss.macosforge.org/trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6/dss-hh-20081021-1.patch patch -p0 < dss-hh-20081021-1.patch cd DarwinStreamingSrvr6.0.3-Source mv Install Install.orig wget http://dss.macosforge.org/trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6/Install chmod +x Install ./Buildit sudo ./Install wget http://dss.macosforge.org/trac/raw-attachment/ticket/6/darwin-streaming-server chmod +x darwin-streaming-server sudo cp darwin-streaming-server /etc/init.d/darwin-streaming-server sudo update-rc.d darwin-streaming-server defaults

At this point, you should browse to http://servername:1220/ and finish setting up Darwin Streaming Server. Just follow the prompts, it is pretty straight forward. Next, test that you can stream an existing file by pointing your media player at rtsp://servername/sample_100kbit.mp4 or rtsp://servername/sample_50kbit.3gp depending on your player. If neither of these work, stop here and figure out what went wrong. Testing VLC Make sure the current user can write to /usr/local/movies. Find the video you want to stream. vlc /path/to/video -sout='#transcode{soverlay,ab=48,samplerate=44100,channels=1,acodec=mp4a,vcodec=h264,width= 512,height=288,vfilter=\"canvas{width=512,height=288,aspect=16:9}\",fps=25,vb=384,venc=x264{vb v-bufsize=200,partitions=all,level=12,no-cabac,subme=7,threads=4,ref=2,mixedrefs=1,bframes=0,min-keyint=1,keyint=50,qpmax=51}}:gather:rtp{mp4a-latm,dst=127.0.0.1,portaudio=20000,port-video=20002,ttl=127,sdp=file:/usr/local/movies/movie.sdp}' These settings work for streaming to the Motorola DROID. You may need to tweak them for your destination device.

Once you have started VLC, point your media player at rtsp://servername/movie.sdp. You should see your video playing. Set Up Apache Browse to http://servername/ to ensure your Apache setup is working. If you don't see a message saying "It Works!", stop and figure out what went wrong. Download the index.php file from this site, and place it in /var/www. Restart Apache to make sure PHP is loaded: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload. Ensure your www-data user can write to /usr/local/movies. Edit the index.php file: set the $basedir variable to be the path to your videos. Set the $transcode variable to be whatever you needed to tweak the vlc settings to be. Try it all out Browse to http://servername/index.php. Browse until you find a video to play. Click the video; this will start VLC in the background, transcoding the video. Click the Watch Now link. This will open the video in your player. Be sure to click the stop button when you are done, otherwise VLC will continue to run, using up CPU cycles.

Limitations This only allows one video to be transcoded and streamed at a time. This works great for personal use. Cannot stream DVDs yet. Cannot skip, fast-forward, rewind, etc. Troubleshooting Your firewall needs the following ports open: TCP 554, UDP 6970:6999.

If you are behind a NAT firewall, you need to change the following line in streamingserver.xml:

<PREF NAME="alt_transport_src_ipaddr" ></PREF> to (replace 123.45.67.8 with your public IP address):

<PREF NAME="alt_transport_src_ipaddr" >123.45.67.8</PREF> The streaming server must be restarted in order for this to take effect. If you do not have a static IP address then the streaming server needs to be reconfigured and restarted every time your IP address changes.