LScube

Due excessive spamming and the fact we'd like to have more people using the mailing lists the email team@streaming.polito.it has been closed.

Any email sent there will be redirected to /dev/null from now.

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Flux 1.0 has been released and can be downloaded from Downloads Page

This means that now flux is the official RTP streams manipulation and mixing tool of LSCube. After a few days of test and one real test on the field, streaming Accademy Year Inauguration Event at Accademia delle Scienza di Torino, Flux has been considered reliable and usable for real world as much as Felix if not more.

Actually working and test I/O and parsers are:

UDP Input
TCP Input

UDP Output
TCP Output
Bufferpool Output

Flux has reached 1.0rc2 status. This means that in a few days, as soon as we are able to migrate it from Makefile pure building to autotoolized one, and after a few more tests Flux will be released to replace Felix.

Lately I had been busy trying to recover from a Summer Pneumonia (also know as “puzzle for a doctor”), now I'm feeling better and hopefully I'll try to merge the fixes contributed in the mailing list and also make something new appear soon.

Thanks to TOP-IX now we have a quite reliable streaming node for our streaming activity. Soon we'll use it to let people play with our web integration with feng (called right now theater).

Thanks to some friends from Magneti Marelli we got the proof that feng+felix are working even on embedded system (arm based).

We are working on a major rewrite of the Felix tool, Felix architecture was quite chaotic and mostly hard to expand, so we created Flux.

Flux is a redesigned Felix. It is written in C++ and with a modular design. Still it is missing most of the features of felix and is only usable as a repeater over the UDP transport, so using felix is still necessary for live streaming and production environments, but we hope to be able to prefer Flux over Felix soon.

Given I was holding on releasing something just because I wanted to have more features in before the actual 0.2 release, I just decided to provide you with a pre-release sporting at least the new configuration, some minor fixes here and there and the experimental speex support (you may try to use the dumb receiver in felix git to test it).

As you may already know from the git commits, feng is getting some new features added and some code is being reshaped in order to be easier to understand. Right now we didn't do much with the new lighttpd based configuration beside adding support for listening to an arbitrary number of sockets and other minor changes, before starting to push more interesting stuff we'd like to receive more feedback and test it a bit more.

Big news for felix, after a major refactoring we have completed the working support for creating a TCP bridge between two felix nodes. Now it is possible to transfer packets from the producer to feng under a more reliable transport instead of UDP, trading latency for delivery guaranties

We have created and uploaded a document about the current project status and the future features we are going to implement. I'm sorry for non italian speaking people, but the document is in italian language because we had to prepare it for a local meeting.

For anyone able to understand italian and interested the document is available here:http://live.polito.it/…s/lscube.pdf

I spent some time hacking a bit our git setup and I eventually revived cia and in the mean time also created a mailing list to hold the commits so people can watch them. I started the process to register our mailing lists to gmane. Hopefully the irc channel will be revived too (please join it).

We are setting up the latest details for the internet governance forum meeting that will be held in Geneva on 26 February 2008 right now.