Re: [Debconf-video] Live streaming for HTML 5
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Together with the DebConf video team and others I've set up live
> streaming from several conferences over HTTP. This was done using the
> following software:
>
> - Streaming server: Icecast <http://www.icecast.org/>
> - Streaming client: oggshout <https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31156&release_id=991>
> - Format conversion: ffmpeg2theora <http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/>
>
> Icecast and ffmpeg2theora are included in many Linux distributions. The
> oggshout client is my own (trivial) invention; there are other
> compatible clients listed at <http://www.icecast.org/3rdparty.php>.
Why oggshout and not
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/oggfwd
"a basic icecast source client for audio and video streaming"
?
>
> This combination uses Ogg Theora+Vorbis video, which is supported within
> HTML 5 <video> elements in Firefox, Chrome and Opera browsers. For
> other browsers it would be necessary to provide a fallback:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora#Browser_plugins>.
>
> Our video sources are normally DV cameras but webcams should also be
> usable with ffmpeg2theora.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
>
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Carl K
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