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by DanielHB 103 days ago
Not really related to the topic, but I recently set up a baby-cam with ffmpeg by just telling ffmpeg to stream to the broadcast address on my home network and I can now open the stream from VLC on any device in the household.

A very heavy-handed solution, but super simple. A single one-liner. Just thought to share a weird trick I found.
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pocksuppet 103 days ago
It could be a little more efficient to use a multicast address. Even if you don't have any special multicast routing set up, all the receiving machines should be able to discard the traffic a bit earlier in the pipeline.
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DanielHB 102 days ago
yeah I tried that for a bit but didn't manage to get multicasting to work. My internal network is fine even with the extra broadcast traffic. This is not a permanent installation, eventually I won't need the babycam anymore.

I saw some other solutions using nginx to serve the stream but that was much more complicated, just broadcasting is an one-liner (in a systemd daemon).

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