[wsfii-discuss] Live video conference - for real?

Sun Sep 24 19:23:46 UTC 2006

Hi Saul, all

I really want to crack this one and do it FLOSS. I have contacted Adam Hyde
of the streamingsuitcase.com how-to website (I found it on your
earlier post on this list) and Adam likes to help out but is also busy
on a collaborative manual production platform called FLOSS Manuals
(www.flossmanuals.org)

The info on GISS is scarce but found this:
http://rama.xicnet.com/?page=streaming where its called GISS
stream-ring ( i like that ) and seems to be based on debian packages
for icecast2. So please, kdag, explain a bit more and don't mind your
english, we will understand..

We could work on the wiki on this project at:
http://summit.airjaldi.com/wiki/index.php?title=GISS.Stream.Ring
and later add it to the Streaming Suitcase.

Thanks Fred

P.S. I am almost ready configuring VLC to do a ogg/theora stream
without frying my centrino CPU but i am silly enough to try this on
winxp with a webcam using DirectView.

On 9/24/06, Saul Albert <saul at theps.net> wrote:
> Hi Alejo,
>
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 10:23:15AM +0200, kdag wrote:
> > fred, let me know if you want to use opensource all the way, including
> > the compression codec :)
>
> I want that ;)
>
> > G.I.S.S Is the system we have used for few years now, i've tried
> > already few times to call the attention to it here but phps my english
> > is bizarre, phps cause i dont use caps, but this time i do...-> Could
> > be the perfect match for melding few dis-localized events.. We have
> > done so already with the latin american lug's and few other parties..
>
> I've seen G.I.S.S. involved in streaming lots of interesting projects,
> but have never seen it presented on its own, or managed to get my head
> around it properly with the scattered documentation. It seems like the
> perfect fit for streaming WSFII activities because it's FLOSS from the
> ground up, and based on an existing decentralized network of peers..
> perhaps if we can use this list to consolidate questions and answers,
> then write some docs, we could make it work for WSFII.
>
> I have lots of questions:
>
> - Is G.I.S.S. is a network of interconnected servers that provide
>  FLOSS-based ogg theora video streaming capabilities for like-minded
>  groups to use?
>
> - Can WSFII use this network to stream activities from Dharamasala?
>
> - What kind of equipment/software do we need to provide a stream source
>  to the G.I.S.S.  network? Which online resources do you recommend for
>  helping with setting up a stream source?
>
> - What kind of equipment/software do we need to watch a stream? What
>  online resources do you recommend for helping with that?
>
> - Can groups who have contributed to WSFII join the network and offer
>  resources? If so, what's needed? For example, What other kind of help
>  does the GISS project need that we might be able to offer
>
> - I think there are lots of other questions - such as how to integrate
>  IRC chat with streaming, and how to allow the non-amplified,
>  non-formal parts of the programme to be streamed and shared as well as
>  the official bits.. but perhaps we can develop this thread and
>  document it on the WSFII wiki.
>
> Erm. I don't know which wiki to use though... any offers?
>
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