On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-video mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video > > -- Carl K _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video
