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I have a simple setup:

  • Server with Intel Duel Core Xeon with 8 GB of RAM
  • Fitted with a Ospray 440 hardware.
  • Have a software for capturing, encoding and streaming live TV. (probably VLC Player or Flustream)
  • Configured to stream to iPhone devices only using the following settings: Resolution: 320 x 240 Bit-rate: 300k Frames: 25 Codec: H.264

My questions:

  • Assuming that we're using a 10 MB up/down connection, how many users can we support on this setup?
  • Assuming that we're upgrading to 100 MB up/down connection, how many users can we support now?
  • Is there a better scenario to stream Live TV to iPhone devices?

Thanks

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Answer for last question - use CDN. I.e.: limelight.com – Maciek Sawicki Aug 17 '11 at 9:03
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The answers to your questions depends on if you use multicasting to stream your content. If not, the bandwidth used is 300kbit/s * [users]. Thus, you can fit 34 clients into 10MB/s. Upgrade to 100MB/s and it's 340 clients. On multicast the bandwidth required is that of a single stream, so you can stream to a lot more users.

Can't really answer the last question since I have no experience of streaming to iOS devices, but all generic solutions should work as long as you specify a compatible format for the stream.

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