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+## <u>Progressive Streaming</u>
+A simple application that allows the transfer of a video file from the server to the client and upon download, has playback.<br>
+A transcoder script has also been introduced which allows the user to encode the given video to a different format.
+
+### Important Libraries Used
++ OpenGL
+  + GLFW
++ ffmpeg
+  + libavcodec
+  + libavformat
+  + libswscale
+
+### To run the script
+Make sure you have a directory named bin in your project home to run the following commands.<br>
+
+For simply playing the video file:
+```
+$ cc main_window.cpp decoder.cpp -lstdc++ -lavcodec -lavformat -lavutil -lswresample -lswscale -lglfw -lGL -o bin/player
+$ cd bin/
+$ ./player <videofilename>
+```
+
+For activating TCP server client transfer:
+```
+$ cc tcp_main_window.cpp decoder.cpp tcp_client.c -lstdc++ -lavcodec -lavformat -lavutil -lswresample -lswscale -lglfw -lGL -o bin/tcp_player && cc tcp_server.c -o bin/tcp_server
+$ cd bin/
+$ ./tcp_server
+$ ./tcp_player <videofilename>
+```
+
+For transcoding:
+```
+$ cc transcoder.c debug.c -lstdc++ -lavcodec -lavformat -lavutil -lswresample -lswscale -lglfw -lGL -o bin/transcoder
+$ cd bin/
+$ ./transcoder <inputfilename> <desiredoutputfilecodec>
+```
+
+### Developed by
+[Aniketh Gireesh](https://github.com/Aniketh01)<br>
+[Akshay Praveen Nair](https://github.com/iammarco11)