November 28 2007

Video over IP anyone?

I’ve been using voice over IP for a while and it works great, but what about video over IP?

Although relatively new, I’ve been using video over IP for over a year now. I’m basically using it for entertainment, streaming media over IP via an 802.11g connection to my entertainment system.

I’ve tried several streaming applications to achieve this, by far, the best is Tversity. I run this on a Windows XP box and I have couple of media boxes, DSM-320 and DSM-520 that display video on a big screen TV.

I’ve also heard from some people that a voice conversation does not work very well over WiFi, I say, if live video can work over WiFi then voice is no problem. If it’s not working on your network, look at some other trouble spots.