video streaming -- recommendations?

[Peter King]

I'd like to be able to stream video from a Linux box to several different
kinds of recipients: laptops running OSX, tablets running Android, other
computers running Linux. I already use calibre-server and mpd to serve up
ebooks and music respectively, and was wondering if there were anything I
could use for video.  Command-line is preferable but not required; remote
control would be convenient.

Google reveals a lot of very heavy solutions: "media servers" such as MythTV,
MediaTomb, and so on, but they seem to be much more than I need. I'd be happy
if mplayer2 were to run as a daemon, for instance, but I can't see that it
does.

What have people tried? What has worked, and what hasn't? Is there any clear
winning solution for all this? I'd be grateful for any and all advice, comment,
and suggestions. Thanks.

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