Florito

I'm working on a project where i want to stream video over the internet.

I am on a PC and thus confined to using the jit.broadcast object. I am testing it using streaming to localhost (127.0.0.1) / (0.0.0.0). When I open the RTSP stream in quicktime it seems to connect but it doesn't show any video.

I am quite sure there's a connection, because when i open a different ip in quicktime, it just says "bad request".

Did anyone get jit.broadcast working on a PC?

Does jit.broadcast work on localhost or do I need another machine on the network to test it?

Might there be an issue with the quicktime version? (I am using quicktime pro 7.6.2)

I'm working on a project where i want to stream video over the internet.
I am on a PC and thus confined to using the jit.broadcast object. I am testing it using streaming to localhost (127.0.0.1) / (0.0.0.0). When I open the RTSP stream in quicktime it seems to connect but it doesn't show any video.
I am quite sure there's a connection, because when i open a different ip in quicktime, it just says "bad request".

So, the questions:
Did anyone get jit.broadcast working on a PC?
Does jit.broadcast work on localhost or do I need another machine on the network to test it?
Might there be an issue with the quicktime version? (I am using quicktime pro 7.6.2)

jit-broadcast-not-working

you should try receiving on VLC
http://www.videolan.org/

Thanks for the tip, I actually dreamed last night about using VLC.

I tried it but no connection. I tried with and without defining port number. No connection.

When I enable my network device, max tells me that my ip is something like 172.121....., even when i give it a different unicast address to stream to (like localhost - 127.0.0.1). When I turn off my network device, max says it will stream to 0.0.0.0:8554/jitStream. Opening this stream in quicktime seems to connect, there's just no image. Doing the same in VLC will just throw an error.

Another thing:
When I enable my network device, max tells me that my ip is something like 172.121....., even when i give it a different unicast address to stream to (like localhost - 127.0.0.1). When I turn off my network device, max says it will stream to 0.0.0.0:8554/jitStream. Opening this stream in quicktime seems to connect, there's just no image. Doing the same in VLC will just throw an error.


try different sizes (starting with the smallest one), codec (for me jpeg is the only one working)

if you have different network devices (ethernet, airport) make sure only one is open

try different sizes (starting with the smallest one), codec (for me jpeg is the only one working)
if you have different network devices (ethernet, airport) make sure only one is open
I personnaly had best results with VLC

The only stream we managed up to now was a mac streaming a 160x120px video to a pc over a direct ethernet cable. When we tried to increase the resolution, we never managed to get a stream again. Too bad, since we had planned to set up an installation streaming video over internet connections...

Anyone out there that has had success with the jit.broadcast or jit.qt.broadcast object?

The only stream we managed up to now was a mac streaming a 160x120px video to a pc over a direct ethernet cable. When we tried to increase the resolution, we never managed to get a stream again. Too bad, since we had planned to set up an installation streaming video over internet connections... 

What you're trying to do is a video server.

In my opinion, the problems you're having are not related to max, but to your network.

You can try working with Quicktime broadcaster (

http://www.apple.com/fr/quicktime/broadcaster/)

 or with VLC on your network, once you get correct results, give jit.broadcast or jit.qt.broadcast another try.

With jit.broadcast, I managed to send one 640x480 stream to three different PCs over a 100Mbit local network but with a latency of several seconds (and of course a different latency on each PC).

If you want best results, make sure your network (ethernet cards, switches, routers and CABLES) is in Gigabit.

I'm not a network expert, but the biggest problem is that the computer that streams is not a real server. So I doubt you'll manage to stream over internet.

I wonder if it would be possible to run Max on a Mac Os Server.

Let me know, I'm currently working on something similar but on a local network.

What you're trying to do is a video server.
In my opinion, the problems you're having are not related to max, but to your network.
You can try working with Quicktime broadcaster (http://www.apple.com/fr/quicktime/broadcaster/) or with VLC on your network, once you get correct results, give jit.broadcast or jit.qt.broadcast another try.

I'm not a network expert, but the biggest problem is that the computer that streams is not a real server. So I doubt you'll manage to stream over internet.
I wonder if it would be possible to run Max on a Mac Os Server.

jit.broadcast not working?