[opensolaris-summit] Recording sessions?

Jesse Silver Jesse.Silver at Sun.COM
Tue Apr 22 10:37:31 PDT 2008


Dev - this is really awesome. In an attempt to make sure no attendees of 
the summit (including you) are burdened by taping, I am going to try and 
have someone outside of the community handle this. I'll see if he can 
stream using this method.

Thanks a ton.

Dev Mazumdar wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I have now been able to create the "Live Streaming Server" for Solaris 
> x86 that uses Icecast, Ices and Open Sound.
>
> You can download the package from:
> http://www.opensound.com/test/livess-1.0-i386.pkg
>
> Setup instructions are really simple and can be done on any machine with 
> audio.
>
> Server Setup:
> -------------
> 1) Must have Solaris 11 with Open Sound System - ensure recording is 
> working by running ossrecord test.wav and speak into the mic and 
> playback by typing ossplay test.wav. If you hear your voice you're set. 
> If nothing is heard run ossxmix and setup the mixer so that the mic is 
> the input source.
>
> 2) pkgadd -d livess-1.0-i386.pkg as root
>
> 3) edit /etc/icecast.xml and /etc/ices.xml and look for
>     xx.xx.xx.xx and replace that with your machine's IP.
>
> 4) run /etc/init.d/livess start
>
>
> Client setup (windows, unix, macos)
> ----------------------------
> Requirement: XMMS or Winamp or Windows Media Player or iTunes
>
>
> UNIX:
> In XMMS: put the mouse on the XMMS window press ^l and it pop up a
> dialog box in which you type:
> http://you.ip.add.ress:8000/opensolaris.ogg
>
> WINDOWS:
> In Winamp: hit PL button and press Add and select Add URL and in the box
> type http://your.ip.add.ress:8000/opensolaris.ogg
>
> MACOS:
> No clue if itunes supports ogg.
>
> Wait for about 20 seconds and you should now hear anything being 
> recording on the server. There is a lag of about 20 seconds - nothing I 
> can do about it - it's just buffering and encoding that takes time.
>
>
> THis version uses Ogg so we should be in the clear w.r.t licenses and 
> other issue surrounding mp3.
>
>
> If necessary we can also record whatever is being sent out to the net to 
> a file for archival.
>
>
> Give it a shot and let me know if there are problems.
>
>
>
> best regards
> Dev Mazumdar
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