[WLANnews] Streaming, Formats, Licenses

[Alexander Morlang]

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kloschi schrieb:
> 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! 

olsrd is BSD licensed. TCP/IP is BSD.
replace GPL license by free license.

> 
> [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

scnr, Alex
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