On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 18:20 -0600, Carl Karsten wrote: > 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" > ? Because back in early 2006 oggfwd lacked error handling and had unclear copyright. Both of which reasons are probably irrelevant now. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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