[theora] Live Ogg Vorbis/Theora Streaming Software
Basil Mohamed Gohar
abu_hurayrah at hidayahonline.org
Tue Oct 27 08:49:21 PDT 2009
On 10/27/2009 11:33 AM, michel memeteau wrote:
> I I'm sorry to dig out threads that are 3 years old,
>
> but I come accross right now of the need to help someone to setup an
> icecast source on his windows machine with a Webcam and the line input.
>
> In order to convince him that theora encoding with Itheora on the
> website side is a good idea , I think using theora 1.1 is a good
> start. then would you confirm that the solution are :
>
>
> - Streamer.exe from visonair.tv <http://visonair.tv> : great app , no
> sure about the licence , not ready for 1.1 ( just need to replace
> theora.dll ? )
>
> - latest VLC with icecast streaming : I'm not sure how VLC encode to
> theora ? using libtheora ? or ffmpeg ? anybody used it for 1.1 ?
>
> - Command line with Win32 ffmpeg2theora : seems the most reliable
> solution but definitely not usefriendly for the user.
>
>
> Any suggestions and experience really appreciate.
>
> 2006/11/13 Yorn <yorn at gmx.net <mailto:yorn at gmx.net>>
>
> Hi Rob,
>
> will you provide the sourcecode of your project? I am working on a
> similar
> project for linux (but I'm not really far with it due to my short
> spare
> time). Maybe we could combine our efforts in one project to
> support linux and
> windows capturing/streaming.
>
> yorn
>
> Am Samstag, 11. November 2006 20:12 schrieb Robert Smith:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Its been a while since I posted to this list.
> >
> > I have finished an application to stream Live Ogg Vorbis/Theora
> to file or
> > Icecast server for Windows users.
> > For example, you can stream your webcam/radio station with it.
> Maybe this
> > will help make more Theora streams available as there seems to
> be very
> > little Windows support.
> >
> > Some features are as follows:
> > - Connects to DirectShow Input devices (eg: webcam, capture card,
> > microphone)
> > - Lots of config options
> > - Stream to File or Icecast server
> > - Audio settings (sampling frequency, channels and Vorbis
> Quality)
> > - Video settings (Normal Theora settings, video cropping, video
> > resizing) - Overlay image on top of video feed (supports BMP,
> JPEG and
> > PNG 8/24) - Will take advantage of Multi-CPU systems
> >
> > The application looks and works a bit like Nullsofts "NSV Live
> Capture"
> > program.
> >
> > Direct Download URL is http://dir.visonair.tv/streamer.exe
> >
> > Any comments, suggestions, and bug reports would be appreciated.
> >
> > Rob Smith
>
Well, I'm also looking for something that can do this for some others I
work with that are limited to a Windows platform. If I am not mistaken,
VLC player uses libavcodec for most, if not all, of its codecs, so it
may not have the most up-to-date libtheora or theora encoding. I had
posted a similar request a short while back, referencing Edcast [1] as a
great example, but for only Ogg Vorbis audio streaming. Something like
that for video would really open up a lot of opportunities.
Anyway, if I come across anything, I'll let you know. I'm also keen on
knowing what Free/Libre software options are out there for streaming
Theora video from Windows or other platforms.
[1] http://www.oddsock.org/tools/edcast/
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