Distribution

[naxxfish]

Hi everyone, again!

I'm going to start a separate thread for this one - basically, what sorts of outputs do we want to provide, and how is it going to be distributed?  We can probably assume we have an Internet connection of some sort, but other than that it's all up to us lot.  If we get the RSL license, we'll need FM transmission gear (some details of which is on the wiki), but we might also want to do Icecast2 streaming, possibly some other kind of streaming - and maybe even some RoTs of live content which can be downloaded at a later date.

What do we want to do, and how are we going to do it?

Discuss! :D

[Koen Martens]

I keep responding with info in other mails that should be in the next
mail you send :)

As said, for streaming i'm kinda happy with liquidsoap. It can grab multiple
inputs (soundcard, other streams, files) and route that to multiple outputs
in all kinds of convoluted ways.

If we want streaming, i'd be happy to provide both the Signal streaming
server (signal.hackerspaces.org) as well as see if we can hook up into
the Xenim streaming network again, which is a bunch of nerds with about
5 to 10 streaming servers hooked together.

Basically, stream one relatively high-quality stream out of the campsite
to the streaming server, and let liquidsoap handle it from there to
transcode to several icecast2 mounts of different format/quality..

And, if there's lots of people and little bandwidth on the campsite, maybe
a local streaming server with a redirect by the network crew.

- gmc

[Chris Roberts]

On 12 April 2012 12:50, Koen Martens <g...@sonologic.nl> wrote:
>
> As said, for streaming i'm kinda happy with liquidsoap. It can grab multiple
> inputs (soundcard, other streams, files) and route that to multiple outputs
> in all kinds of convoluted ways.

I've had a play with liquidsoap - it seems pretty damn powerful for
that sort of thing. And by the sounds of it we can implement a
silence detect sort of thing with it too - which saves us a bit of kit
in the FM Tx chain.

>
> If we want streaming, i'd be happy to provide both the Signal streaming
> server (signal.hackerspaces.org) as well as see if we can hook up into
> the Xenim streaming network again, which is a bunch of nerds with about
> 5 to 10 streaming servers hooked together.
>
> Basically, stream one relatively high-quality stream out of the campsite
> to the streaming server, and let liquidsoap handle it from there to
> transcode to several icecast2 mounts of different format/quality..

Nice, that'd be pretty cool. Could even use FLAC, to reduce cascading
problems - if we have the bandwidth that is. I've got a VM or two
with Icecast2 on them that we can add to the mix. I've even got a
cute load balancing script for Icecast2 that we could make some use of
if we liked.

>
> And, if there's lots of people and little bandwidth on the campsite, maybe
> a local streaming server with a redirect by the network crew.

That sounds like a sensible idea. We could probably even try
multicast for local stuff - that might be fun.

Chris Roberts
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