[Kamoso] Streaming to an IceCast Server

[Aleix Pol]

2011/9/9 David Narvaez <david.narvaez at computer.org>

> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:34 PM, David Narvaez
> <david.narvaez at computer.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I contacted Aleix about our interest to leverage some desktop webcam
> > applications to do video broadcasting. Our current main goal is
> > streaming to an IceCast server. I had a look at Kamoso's code and even
> > though there's no streaming capability right now, I think it would be
> > fairly easy to use GStreamer's shout2send sink and some configuration
> > dialogs to implement that feature. Also, Aleix told me he had some
> > streaming code he could incorporate easily into Kamoso.
> >
> > The way I see it is:
> > * Add a streaming button after the record button
> > * User clicks it, and a dialog appears. The user can specify hostname,
> > username, password and mountpoint of the stream (there are a billion
> > more settings for the sink, which we could implement through an
> > 'Advanced >>' button in the dialog)
> > * User clicks Ok and he's off streaming
> >
> > In the code, it would probably mean:
> > * Adding a startBroadcasting() method in the WebcamWidget
> > * Doing pretty much the same you do when you start recording, but
> > adding the shout2send sink at the end
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> The attached patch is a proof of concept, which works with an Icecast
> server configured with the attached XML. This is obviously not ready
> for production, but  gives an idea of the whole streaming thing. Any
> improvements are always welcome.
>
> David E. Narvaez
>
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Feasability is not a problem I think, my biggest concern would be that its
target user is quite far to the usual Kamoso user and it might clutter the
UI a little...

Maybe we could have a command line option that adds geeky stuff? :P

Aleix
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