Video streaming from Android device to LAMP Server

Question

starting from this point: http://www.mattakis.com/blog/kisg/20090708/broadcasting-video-with-android-without-writing-to-the-file-system I\'m trying to create an application to s

Answer 1

You're probably going to want to use PHP's server socket functionality.

Here's a handy tutorial which goes through what you need to do in order to implement data streaming.

Answer 2

Depending on the incoming stream (protocol, etc.) you've ended up or want to end up using:

I'm not sure what you are willing to use/install on the LAMP, or what you'd prefer, but I know VLC can easily capture an incoming stream.

http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Receive_and_Save_a_Stream

Of course, the Command Line only version of VLC is probably what you want. I've never done it, not sure how that works, I would hope it doesn't install a metric ton of extra packages. This is something to look at concerning possible concerns.