Use Xuggle in Java to trancode and streaming video/audio

Question

I create an HTTP streaming server, but the clients can not play all video formats, so my question is, if there is a way, using xuggle in the server to transcode the video in a specific format and streaming it directly, on the fly.

I mean, not have to wait to finish the transcoding and then start the http streaming. I mean that I have a loop for example and get everytime a number of transcoded bytes and writes them to the socket.

Answer 1

Yes, but...

I'd not recommend taking this approach. Encoding videos is generally very CPU intensive. The generally accepted aproach to solving this problem is to transcode the video file off-line and store on the streaming server. Yes, that means a couple of different media files with the same video, but it scales muuuuuuuuch better. Most (all?) successful streaming servers do it this way.