LScube

From today we will be streaming the openoffice.org conference live from Orvieto.

Orvieto is a really nice medieval city on the top of an hill, so the connectivity will be provided by a wireless link. We know that this could caused problems with the quality of the live streaming, but we will also provide records of the entire event on http://media.lscube.org/oooconf. For the complete program of the event you can take a look at http://conference.services.openoffice.org/…Conf/program

Branch 1.1 of Theater2 got support for video tag, newly uploaded videos will be converted to h264+aac and theora+vorbis to be played also inside a video tag. Theater2 will detect if the browser supports video or will fallback to VLC if it doesn't.

We started to work on real time effects applied to live streams, while both flux 1.2 and feng 2.1 are still experimental and have some problems some results are already visible. The following screenshot has been taken from feng streaming a 320×200 and a 640×480 version of the same movie generated on real time by flux from a 1920×1080 version of the original movie.

Next step is to permit to flux to change on the fly the input source while still correctly performing transcoding and rtp packetization as a continuous live stream.

A new and quite rewritten version of feng is available in the usual place. It is the first release candidate that should lead us to a stable 2.1 release. It should build and execute correctly in every unix-like operating system (tested on MacOSX, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD and obviously Linux).

For our 10 minutes Open Talk at iRealize we created a quick tutorial on how to quickly install feng and theater to setup your “youtube” clone.

On 13 May we will be streaming IGF Open Consultations from Geneve, the stream will be visible from theater on http://media.lscube.org/live
Also we will store the record on the conference on http://media.lscube.org/IGF
Take a look if you are interested in the future of the internet governance

Feng version 0.2.0_rc1 is available in the usual place along the updated bufferpool and netembryo

Again this is a prerelease with possible issues even if should be better than the former one, please help us improving by testing it and report back issues.

Today at 10:00 (Rome time) we will stream from the University of Torino the event on Open Knowledge and access to knowledge.
The event will be in italian language only and can be accessed from here: http://media.lscube.org/view?…

We started to port Theater to version 2 of Turbogears framework.
In the meanwhile we also decided to take a revamp of the look.
A lot more space has been reserved to content by removing the header and thanks to the suggestion from the default theme of TG2 template new used a different menu style :D

Pipes has been refactored to use only one ffmpeg instance to both record and produce rtp packets, also Flux sources now contain a scripts directory with some bash scripts to use dvgrab and ffmpeg to stream and record live content.

These scripts are a lot easier to use and faster then the old felix ones, also Pipes is now easier to use as you don't have to handle anymore the producers section.

Just click record and then start flux and you will be streaming and recording your live conference.