How-to: NSV / Video Streaming
| NSV / Video Streaming
Shoutcast also supports the NSV (”Nullsoft Streaming Video”) protocol and it is possible to stream to any shoutcast server in this format with no configuration changes. However, NSV Video usually requires a large bitrate and lots of bandwidth. To stream using the NSV protocol it is required that your video files are encoded with the NSV file format, the following range of tools are available to perform this. Download and install the NSV tools, this is what we use to encode normal video files (avi ect) to nsv format Download NsvGui 2, this is what we use to stream to the shoutcast server. Extract NSVGUI 2 to a location on your hard disk, I simply used c:/nsv/ Download and install the following:
Converting Video to NSV Open NSV Tools -> NSV Batch Encoder
Select File -> Add Source Files and select a video file (avi, mpeg, mpg or mov) Select Edit Profiles than select the Default Profile and finally Edit These are the options available for video processing, select NSV Encoder Configuration to configure further options such as Bitrate Once finished, setup the output destination and press OK Select the files you wish to encode and press the green arrow to encode. Streaming NSV Video Files 1. Open NSVGUI 2
2. Locate the files you have just encoded and add these to the playlist. 3. Configure the server address, port and password. 4. Ensure Send File Name as Title is selected, you might also want to use the Loop function 5. To connect to the server, select Stream -> Let’s Stream noting that this will only connect and not start streaming just yet. 6. To actually stream to the server, select Stream -> Let’s Stream again, this is useful if you are doing a presentation and require all to be connected before streaming. Viewing the NSV Stream You can now view the stream with the same process you would use to normally listen to a stream
Open http://youraddress:port and select the listen link Please note NSV stream only works with NSV players such as Winamp, Windows Media Player is NOT supported. To use Windows Media Player you must use Windows Media Services. |
