LScube

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.

We eventually moved host, the old issue track has been scrapped for multiple reasons and now we have a fresh setup The ffmpeg issue tracker had been moved away and got a new home as well.

The whole media archive is now managed by our theater and the git web interface is now available either as cgit and plain gitweb

We updated to drupal 6, sadly we lose the nice mailarchive interface, so you can access mailin

We have released a little Gui to dvgrab, ffmpeg and flux which is here to help people stream their live content.
Instead of having to write your own scripts and use the shell you can now download pipes and use it.

As Theater is becoming our standard easy and quick feng management tool and web interface to VOD and Live content I have created a quick guide to Theater itself
The guide explains all the features available inside theater and how to use it to: configure feng, serve video on demand content and create live streams.

Also remember to read the Theater deploy guide if you need to know how to install it.

A quick guide to how to deploy and configure Theater by itself or behind an Apache proxy has been create at this page any comment is well accepted.

We are also working on a Theater Guide which will describe “how to use theater”, at the moment this one only has some screenshots, but will be completed in a few days.

Also, for tomorrow Merry Christmas to everyone out there :)

After a few days of test the new Theater major feature has been committed to the Git repository.

Now Theater has support for live streams

• Live Streams configuration panel: Will permit to quickly configure live streams, Theater will automatically start and stop a Flux process and create an .sd file at the beginning and at the end of the live stream (the create .sd will work only with feng from GIT)

Theater and so http://lscube.top-ix.org switched to VLCObject to embed VLC plugin and play movies on the web.

This made possible to have an easier to use web site as the VLC plugin now is forced by Theater to RTSP interleaved to prevent problems with UDP transmission and uses a bigger buffer by default to make streams fruible also by people with high latency networks.

We took some time to create a common place for guides to installing, configuring and using the LSCube streaming suite.
Now the Quick Guides section has been created and the two howtos about Building LSCube software and Deploying Feng have been moved inside it, also a new guide about how to perform live streaming has been created.