User:Sim9
I'm a user of several of the Xiph.org technologies. I've been having success using Vorbis, Theora, and Icecast. So far:
- I've been using them Vorbis and Theora for SimWorld, a game project, and
- Theora and Icecast for EATV, a video stream.
Regarding EATV, here's some background information from the Theora news page:
- EATV switches to streaming theora
- 2006 October 3
- Archive Entertainment has switched their EATV streaming video feed to Icecast and Theora! They say the switch to open technology has been very successful for them.
- Great news. Check out their streams or read more here.
Since there's been a few requests on how EATV works (what with the TV-style scheduling), I'll give some insight: Working backwards:
- The Public stream is distributed through Icecast and connected to by users
- Alternatively, the Private stream (extra slots for donators), which is authenticated by a simple PHP script which checks for valid logins
- Both the public stream and private stream are relays of an invisible HUB stream
- The invisible hub stream on Icecast receives Theora show data from a program called ezstream
- ezstream broadcasts shows from the HDD (uploaded & encoded by the EATV Content Team)
- ezstream receives special signals broadcast from custom shell scripts informing it to take a look at the ezstream config file
- the shell scripts automatically download the latest config file from a custom PHP application [the PHP app also outputs a human readable schedule for the website]
- the PHP application outputs a config file according to the database
- the database is filled every two weeks with a new SQL dump by the EATV administrator
- the EATV administrator generates a SQL dump with a custom VB app called the EATV Schedulizer
- the EATV administrator uses the EATV Schedulizer to schedule shows/movies/amvs to play at specific times
Hopefully that gives some insight on how to set up your own TV-style station. It's a lot of work, something of a hack, and requires a good organizational superstructure to keep it updated, but gives you a unique and worthwhile result :)