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List:       theora
Subject:    [Theora] Attempts at live streaming (long)
From:       home () simonb ! org ! uk (Simon Blandford)
Date:       2005-06-14 9:47:48
Message-ID: 42AF0A39.2060906 () simonb ! org ! uk
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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,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Fluendo
> > 
> > 
> 
> (small correction - the server is called "Flumotion")
> 
> 
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Basically, you:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 
> > Someone correct me if I'm wrong but it can't stream via a remote Icecast
> > server.
> > 
> > 
> 
> We have some sample code that does this, but it needs some finishing.
> 
> 
> 
> > So it won't work as I only have 256kbps uplink from the encoding
> > machine.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 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 :)
> 
> 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.
> 
> Also, drop by in #fluendo on irc.freenode.org for more hands-on help.
> 
> Thanks
> Thomas
> 
> 
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