Somebody was just asking me about options for streaming audio and video in Pd-extended. I wouldn't mind help with the answer. Here's what I have gathered so far.

Audio:

* streamin~ and streamout~ --- but the help patches don't seem to work in Linux. Seems to work ok in windows. * netsend~ and netreceive~ --- not provided in pd-extended and seemed a bit flaky when I tried them before. * mp3streamin~ and mp3streamout~ --- help patch missing in pd-extended but seem to work ok outside of Windows. * mp3cast~ and friends: seems to work ok if you have a shoutcast server...

Video:

* I couldn't find anything in Gem to stream video. Did I miss it? I was wondering if using pix_pix2sig~, streaming as audio, then pix_sig2pix~ might work. * in pdp/pidip there's pdp_i and pdp_o. I didn't find help patches for these in pd_extended * also in pdp/pidip there's some other's pdp_mp4live~ etc. I suspect the ffserver-based ones don't work in pd-extended. Not sure on the others.

For either audio or video maybe there's a way to send to vlc through the stdin or stdout, then let vlc do the streaming?

-John