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Feng is a multimedia streaming server compliant with the IETF's standards for real-time streaming of multimedia contents over Internet. Feng implements RTSP – Real-Time Streaming Protocol (rfc2326) and RTP/RTCP – Real-Time Transport Protocol/RTP Control Protocol (rfc3550) supporting the RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control (rfc3551).

Feng supports the following encoding standards:

• Audio
  • MPEG Audio (MPEG-1/2 Layer I/II/III) (rfc2250)
  • Vorbis (rfc5215)
  • AAC (MPEG-4 Part 3) (rfc3640)
• Video
  • MPEG Video (MPEG-1/2) (rfc2250)
  • MPEG 4 Visual (MPEG-4 Part 2) (rfc3016)
  • H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) (rfc3984)
  • H.263 / H.263+ (rfc4629)
  • Theora (draft)

The main characteristics of Feng are the container support, the ability to handle seeking, also used internally for the compositor metademuxer, and the modular structure focused to ease the extension of the codec and the protocol support.

Feng 2.1.0_rc1 is available, otherwise you may fetch the live sources from our public git tree

Feng is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1

Dependencies

• glib version 2
• ffmpeg version 0.5
• netembryo
• libev

NOTE: the clients that are currently working out of box with Feng are VLC, Gstreamer, MPlayer. Currently only Gstreamer supports vorbis and theora playback, soon libnemesi will provide support for it.