A system consisted of 3 applications capable of video conversion, streaming and bidirectional communication (server-client model).

Technologies

• Java 8
• JavaFX framework
• FFmpeg

Installation

1. Download and install ffmpeg (https://ffmpeg.org/download.html).

2. Run the .jar files of the applications (download them from Releases).

3. That's it!

To log messages generated by the applications, run the .jar files from a console (java -jar <application-name>.jar).

Visuals

• StreamDirector application - converts a video to 3 formats (avi, mp4, mkv) and 4 bitrates (0.2Mbps, 0.5Mbps, 1Mbps, 3Mbps) (a total of 12 outputs).

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• StreamingServer application - accesses the videos to be streamed and implements the server logic.

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• StreamingClient application - communicates with the server to request a subset of the available videos and to then request the streaming of a specific video.

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1. Initial flow
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2. Changing connection speed, video format and streaming protocol
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Features

• New: Locate the path to ffmpeg's directory on the user's computer automatically, without the user having to declare it in any system variable.
• Server-Client communication is performed using sockets and threads. The server can accept and will respond to multiple different requests from a client. Supports TCP and UDP communication protocols.
• The system can extract information from the title of a video which is of type videoName-bitrate.format (eg The.Invisible.Guest-3.0Mbps.mp4).
• The client receives a list with videos that have a bitrate less or equal with his/her connection speed.
• Built with MVC Architecture Pattern.

Notes

University project for the course of Multimedia and Multimedia Communications. It is built to work on windows machines.