That's very shiny - and I'm happy to drop IE support, so the fallback wouldn't be a problem :)
I'd love to use it, but the one thing that concerns me is bandwidth: Ustream (and other, less ad-filled video solutions I didn't have time to investigate) will scale up easily and automatically - they can handle 100,000 users if they happen to arrive! It's the same reason I hosted the gamestate data on Amazon S3 - and I'm planning to migrate the online game command there as well. Bandwidth is *expensive*; we had over 120 people watching today's stream at its peak, and even at 500kbps that's a steady 7.3Mbps. Scaling up from there is... difficult on zero budget :) Any ideas welcomed, of course... Thank you so much for the advice :) -- Tom On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 23:40, 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/<http://v2v.cc/%7Ej/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>. > > 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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