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Re: [Debconf-video] Live streaming for HTML 5



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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