Streaming Events
Introduction to TSS
TSS (Theora Streaming Studio) is an excellent encoder for sending Ogg Theora streams to an Icecast server. There is a home page for TSS that is worth reading for an overview of what it does and there are also installers available :
http://gollum.artefacte.org/tss/
TSS is a GUI (graphic user interface) encoder, which means you dont have to do anything tricky on the command line. TSS can send out one or two streams with different settings, from the same video source. The video source can be digital video (DV) or analog video via a video capture device such as a webcam, USB vide-in or video card with video-in.
TSS can also display a preview of the outgoing stream, and it can archive the streams to disk simultaneously (but it depends a little on how good your streaming computer hardware is).
TSS actually sits on top of FFMEG2Theora, oggfwd, and dvgrab - all of which are command line applications. TSS simply takes the configuration you set in the GUI and creates the appropriate command line using this three elements. It means you don't have to do all the tricky command line configuration yourself.
TSS main developer is lluis gómez i bigordà, the current release (febraury 2009) is 0.2. The project status is: active
We consider TSS the best software out there to share your conference, anyhow there are few things we will like to list here as "feature requests" for the future versions:
-Avoid overwriting the dump file, create a way that allows the user to clip the dumped archive file on the fly into new timestamped clips, so to have rough cuts that can me easily placed on the web archive afterwards withouth the need to go through a video editor.