Streaming media server for Fedora Talk

[Mike McGrath]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Tristan Santore wrote:

> On 07/10/09 15:36, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > 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 although its site might be a little out of date.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.
> >
> >
> Paul,
> I do not know anything about the second option you named, however,
> Icecast allows multiple streams, which might be useful. Further, almost
> anyone's client should play ogg vorbis, as you said, and IceCast is rather
> trivial to set up. It also allows for a pre-stream item to be played, which
> could incorporate a legal notice, stating that the content can be freely
> distributed, etc.
>
>

Ive also had some experience with icecast.  My question is how do we tie
asterisk into it?

	-Mike