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Just a little update for those that aren't following our git trees

Alessandro is trying to beat in shape libnemesi by integrating it in MPlayer you can watch the effort in the mplayer-nemesi tree So far the integration steps are almost done and I'm trying to add more parser/depayloaders in libnemesi, finding the current structure a bit overcomplicated in certain places. Expect some changes on it soon.

Ok, my lack of original ideas for titles is getting to the bottom of the barrel…

There isn't much exciting to say, I recently started to work on an AAC packetizer for feng since I hope to get feature parity with darwin streaming server within this season. What is really missing is quirk compatibility with quicktime, if someone has the time to provide a network dump of the dss/quicktime communication would be quite nice, nobody had the time to prepare it yet.

We are almost ready to release, the live support seems almost stable, Dario is getting seek working up to a point and I eventually split bufferpool from feng so you'll have to install it in order to build feng Alessandro made libnemesi use the standalone netembryo

The ebuilds had been updated to reflect those changes.

Sadly I hadn't the time to add multicast support since I had been sidetracked by other tasks.

Basically we spent some time recovering the old server (streaming.polito.it will point to this pages really soon) that died just last week. I enabled the new mailing lists and added a feature or two to our roundup so you can play with it using your email address.

Again a belated report, most of the work involved a pretty evasive bug present on the actual live support in feng (the fenice one forwardported more or less), strangely looks like we are missing a lock somewhere and from time to time _something_ segfaults. Since this bug is hard to reproduce we are wasting lots of time and effort basically trying every debugging facility that comes to mind, as result I updated the configure to support mudflap and duma, so far the bug manages to escape the nets.

Here is another slightly belated report (or perfectly in time depending on your concept of week).

• We eventually released something and obviously we already fixed some bugs shortly after:
  • udp port pool depletion – basically someone forgot to release the resource…
  • rtcp goodbye missing – considered low priority since few clients handle it at all… Well now vlc does so and libnemesi must.

Looks like was quite a fruitful day/week

• Feng
  • Vorbis support working, we spent the whole day debugging it with the help of wtay from fluendo we got vorbis working correctly! Feng streaming and gstreamer acting as client!
  • Theora support is yet to test since the draft is pending the same changes done in vorbis, anyway I made feng act the same way as vorbis nonetheless (in the end I'm the one writing both…)
• Fenice

I know this item is quite belated but we got _quite_ busy and still we are.

Here a summary:

• libnemesi is getting some love eventually, I'm currently thinking a good way to add the sdp data I need in the rtp session structure in order to have the vorbis (and theora and h264 and…) parser done.
• feng got an improvement in the scheduler from Dario and amol is still leading the refactoring+doxyfication effort with me cheerleading^W ruling^W providing help and guidance cough…

An unusually short item, we spent most time doing documentation and cleaning up the code.

Tomorrow we'll be at the Accademia delle Scienze doing a webcast for the convention Le fonti di energia.

More will follow later in the week.

Some random news:

• The transition is complete and the development has been shifted to git, I expect some hiccups in the next week but so far isn't bad at all.
• New site: It is getting some new content but we hadn't time to migrate everything we'd like to keep from this current one, I'm still undecided about nuking the forums or not.