Sa'habuntu Live CD

Context And Goals

This task aims at providing an up-to-date and complete live CD made for streaming. In G.I.S.S. 2.0, a first version has been made, and is usable for most streaming situations, see Sa'habuntu Live CD version 11, it must now be adapted and completed with ad-hoc tools and howtos.

Work achieved

The decision has been taken to base the new release on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, the CD will mainly be produced for i686 in 32-bits mode.

Testing of streaming tools

The team has tested the streaming tools on Ubuntu Hardy and the results are as follows :

State of the Streaming Tools on Ubuntu Hardy

Tool	State	Remarks
Theora Streaming Studio ( ffmpeg2theora )		Works with DV, not with webcams.
MuSE		Works with ogg files, not with mp3s.
Pure Data		The most versatile tool to stream audio and video.
Gstreamer		Works in command line ( complicated ), we will develop a simple streaming interface using the bindings to Python.
Freej		Totally unresponsive on Hardy.
VLC Client		The GUI seems unusable and the stream very unstable and error prone.

Some video editing tools have been tested also with success : Cinelerra, Kino, ...

Development of streaming tools

• We developped new modules for pd/pdp ( pdp_v4l2, pdp_ieee1394 ) to support more cameras drivers natively.

• The Pd patches have been improved to include mixing and recording fonctionalities.

• A development of an interface for GStreamer in in the works.

A list of now available streaming tools is here  : Streaming Tools

To do

• Develop an interface for gstreamer

• Improve pd patches

• Remove webcam support from tss ( use gstreamer or pd instead )

• Creating Icons and Howtos

• Make a master of the cd