[Theora] Attempts at live streaming (long)

[Simon Blandford]

Hi Thomas,

This really is great news :-)

Thanks, I will definitely give Flumotion a try. There will be no need to 
use Icecast since it does both roles.

Regards,
SimonB

Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:

>Hi,
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>>Fluendo
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>(small correction - the server is called "Flumotion")
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>> seems to be the easiest way to stream but from what I can see it
>>only works if your capture card is on the same machine as the server.
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>I assume that by server you mean "the machine doing the actual HTTP
>streaming".  This is not correct - Flumotion makes it *very* easy to
>distribute every task in the streaming process across machines - it's
>one of the reasons why it was written.
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>Basically, you:
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>a) start up a manager on either of two machines
>b) start up a worker on both the encoding and streaming machine
>c) fire up the wizard, and choose the capturing and encoding steps on
>the encoding worker, and the streaming steps on the streaming worker.
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>As an example, see
>http://www.flumotion.net/doc/flumotion/presentation/pycon2005/html/img16.html for a picture that shows (more or less) the setup we use for our demo streams.
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>>Someone correct me if I'm wrong but it can't stream via a remote Icecast
>>server.
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>We have some sample code that does this, but it needs some finishing.
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>> So it won't work as I only have 256kbps uplink from the encoding
>>machine.
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>It will work - flumotion can definately do the capturing and encoding at
>one place and the streaming at another.  It wouldn't even claim to be a
>streaming server if it couldn't :)
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>Consider giving flumotion another try, and feel free to tell us what we
>can do better so that it's more obvious that every part of the process
>is distributed the way you want, so we can communicate that better.
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>Also, drop by in #fluendo on irc.freenode.org for more hands-on help.
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>Thanks
>Thomas
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