LScube

We prepared an ubuntu livecd already configured to perform live streaming with LSCube. It is intended to be used on the computer that will acquire the video from the camera and will send it to the feng server to be redistributed to users.

Download it from HERE: http://www.lscube.org/…s/livecd.iso

It works with dvgrab and ffmpeg, and so requires a firewire camera to be connected to the system.

Our bugzilla was broken during the server transition mostly because I'm not proficient enough with postgresql and I was expecting to have its datafiles work flawlessly once copied. Apparently I was wrong or I messed up in the process. Long story short, our bugzilla is a clean and ready to receive new bugs…

Feng new rtsp parser has been deemed to be safe enough to be merged back in the main branch. Please try it and report any issue. It should be faster, leaner and nicer to read and work with. As an added bonus http-tunnelling is supported now.

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?…