PiMPStreamer is an audio and video streamer originally conceived for the PSP (PlayStationPortable). Thus, most of its settings are optimized for video streaming to the PSP. However, recently the application has been improved to support other devices. Basically, currently any FLV capable browser can play the video streamed by PiMPStreamer.
Since I do not own a PSP or a Playstation 3, I tested this app using Google Chrome. After all, the functionality should be the same. PiMPStreamer installs a web server on your computer from where videos are loaded. It uses port "3333". So if you want to try this locally, you simply have to type in localhost:3333 on your web browser. A PiMPStreamer interface will appear, from where you can select a video from one of the video directories that you added with the application. I added a sample .AVI file which played automatically at full-screen. The video played just fine, and it used the quality settings that were built-in with the application. The interface isn't the fanciest-looking one, and it presents some problems. But it gets the job done.
All in all, this is a video streamer that works nicely. I couldn't test it with a PSP but it worked very well in a web browser.
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