I did some testing earlier and I actually got a video stream out onto the net and was watching it within about 20 minutes. My head exploded. It was really easy to do.
I was able to view the stream on Linux and Mac OS X using VLC. I was streaming and viewing on the Linux box (a 2.8 Ghz laptop, 512 MB RAM). The CPU sat at about 70% and the machine didn’t look like anything bad was going to happen, I left it running for about 45 minutes and it all seemed cool. The data rates were I think 70 kbps video and 60 kbps audio, which was about 1/4 of my 802.11b wireless card’s bandwidth. So this should work in most wireless situations if you’ve got a decent wifi connection. It was not using very much RAM, it didn’t seem. Hardware requirements should be fairly modest, maybe a 1Ghz machine would do it.
