InternetTv-IPmulticast-Stream-radio

This repository contains a InternetTV/Radio application that is implemented using multicast IP ASM(Any Source Multicast) model in C language. This Live Streaming service can be implemented in any kind of LAN(WLAN/Ethernet) provided the server and clients are in the same network.

The project uses two different Transport Layer Protocols(TCP/IP & UDP) for communicating different data.And uses two way communication for fetching radio list(TCP) and other for streaming service(UDP).

Installation & dependencies

The Project includes many GUI and VLC plugins which will be needed for displaying the video file recieved continously. and before u install vlc plugin make sure u have installed it with apt repository and not with snap repository.

For VLC media Player : sudo apt install vlc (if installed with snap, uninstall it and install with apt).

• Server File : sudo apt install ffmpeg
• Client File : It uses Gtk2 for GUI and libvlc for integrating vlc window in the GUI
  • GTK3 : sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev
  • GTK2 : sudo apt install libgtk2.0-dev
  • libvlc : sudo apt install libvlc-dev

Usage

Before running the file, convert an existing audio / video file(any format) to streamable format(preferred mp4) using the command ffmpeg -i inputfile.mp4 -f mpegts streamable_output.mp4.

To Compile both use make file:

make

Or individually

• Server:

gcc iserver.c -o server -lpthread

• Client:

gcc -o guiclient guiclient.c `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 libvlc` `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 libvlc

Run:

• Server: ./server
• Client: sudo ./guiclient (sudo is mandatory as it accesses network interface for multicast IP)