On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Tristan Santore wrote: > On 07/10/09 15:36, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > We need to set up an appropriate media streaming server for Fedora > > Talk for streaming conference calls, allowing us to make them more > > open and transparent for Fedora contributors to listen in, for > > recordings to be published to a server for download and/or streaming, > > and so forth. > > > > Clint Savage (herlo) has used icecast in the past at a FUDCon, I > > believe. Thomas Vander Stichele (thomasvs) works directly on the > > flumotion system. > > > > My cursory reading (and limited understanding) tell me that icecast > > might be easier to set up, and it does support Ogg Vorbis audio > > although its site might be a little out of date. The way I understand > > it, flumotion is a more robust and future-capable server system, based > > on Python and GStreamer. Both are worthy free software projects and > > no slight is intended toward either. I'm primarily concerned that > > those of us working on the FAD for Fedora Talk, our VoIP system, have > > *something* off the ground (or at least well understood) by the time > > of the FAD, October 23-25. > > > > In yesterday's meeting, we discussed and generally agreed that we > > should go for whatever's easiest now, with the understanding that we > > might replace that with an expanded solution in the short to medium > > term. I'm cc'ing Clint and Thomas to ask for any helpful advice on > > setting up one or the other. We're not interested in a dogfight of > > products, just choosing what will get us off the ground quickly. Our > > initial needs are simply to stream and record audio to listeners in an > > Ogg Vorbis format, but in the future we will likely want to stream > > video and/or provide other functionality like live presentations. > > > > > Paul, > I do not know anything about the second option you named, however, > Icecast allows multiple streams, which might be useful. Further, almost > anyone's client should play ogg vorbis, as you said, and IceCast is rather > trivial to set up. It also allows for a pre-stream item to be played, which > could incorporate a legal notice, stating that the content can be freely > distributed, etc. > > Ive also had some experience with icecast. My question is how do we tie asterisk into it? -Mike _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
