RTP Media Server

(July 2013 - November 2013)
Group Project
Role: Lead Programmer, Presenter

Written for the RMIT University module “Operating System Principles”, this program acts as a media server that supports simultaneous streams and users. Users can request movies by sending a request to the server, which will respond with a movie stream to the client. This program constructs the packets using the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) and sends them to the user via the User Datagram Protocol (UDP).

Functionality and features

• Supports users watching the same stream.
• Supports concurrent streams.
• MPEG-1 files stored on the server, the packets created on the fly.
• Designed to run on the Raspberry Pi, with low requirements.
• Utilises multi-threading and processes.
• Inter-process communication via pipes and shared memory.
• Maintains concurrency integrity via semaphores.
• Kernel module version available (as a proof of concept).