Streaming media server for Fedora Talk

[Paul W. Frields]

We need to set up an appropriate media streaming server for Fedora
Talk for streaming conference calls, allowing us to make them more
open and transparent for Fedora contributors to listen in, for
recordings to be published to a server for download and/or streaming,
and so forth.

Clint Savage (herlo) has used icecast in the past at a FUDCon, I
believe.  Thomas Vander Stichele (thomasvs) works directly on the
flumotion system.

My cursory reading (and limited understanding) tell me that icecast
might be easier to set up, and it does support Ogg Vorbis audio
although its site might be a little out of date.  The way I understand
it, flumotion is a more robust and future-capable server system, based
on Python and GStreamer.  Both are worthy free software projects and
no slight is intended toward either.  I'm primarily concerned that
those of us working on the FAD for Fedora Talk, our VoIP system, have
*something* off the ground (or at least well understood) by the time
of the FAD, October 23-25.

In yesterday's meeting, we discussed and generally agreed that we
should go for whatever's easiest now, with the understanding that we
might replace that with an expanded solution in the short to medium
term.  I'm cc'ing Clint and Thomas to ask for any helpful advice on
setting up one or the other.  We're not interested in a dogfight of
products, just choosing what will get us off the ground quickly.  Our
initial needs are simply to stream and record audio to listeners in an
Ogg Vorbis format, but in the future we will likely want to stream
video and/or provide other functionality like live presentations.

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