[WLANnews] Streaming, Formats, Licenses (was: Backyard Radio Berlin - at Tesla)

[kloschi]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:52 +0200, Marc Manthey wrote:
> 
> hello kloschi ,
> 
> 
> thanks for the explanation,  i am a bit experienced with streaming
> and i was thinking if its possible to use a streaming software like "
> darwin streaming server" 
> <http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Darwin_Streaming_Server>
> or <http://mpeg4ip.sourceforge.net/ > to stream over a "meshed"
> network.

As I'm not sure about the licensing of the Darwin Streaming Server
[Apple Public Source License] and its Freedoms, and especially the
streaming formats [MP3, MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, RTP, RTSP .. all non-free
codecs ] I'd like to use something else ..

Why could that be interesting? Well, using *free* infrastructure to
broadcast *free* content: at this point the involved technology _is_
imho politically important to the project and *Why* therefor not using
GPL'ed streaming software like icecast [1] or peercast [2] and
especially *free* formats like ogg vorbis [3] for audio and ogg theora
[4] for video? btw, for video streaming freej [5] is always a nice one!
> 
As we all all live in the world of Free software (more or less), having
GPL-Software driven free networks, it *should* bother us with which
tools and in which formats we produce and distribute our contents! 

[1] http://www.icecast.org/ 
[2] http://www.peercast.org/ 
[3] http://www.vorbis.com/faq/
[4] http://www.theora.org/faq/
[5] http://freej.org/

:)

> > [1] http://www.ninjam.com/
> 
> 
> nice stuff thank you very much

we tried it 2 years ago for some international streaming sessions, it
was fun but very hard to synchronise :) .. at least if moderation should
have a meaning, hehe

kind regards,
kloschi
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