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Flumotion streams the FOSDEM developer conference live in open formats WebM and Ogg

February 1, 2013 in Conferences, Industry Events, Live Streaming, News, Open source streaming, Open Source Video with 0 Comments

The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. This year’s edition takes place on Feb 2-3 in Brussels and brings more than 5,000 hackers together to share ideas and to collaborate. It is renowned for being highly developer-oriented and is one of the most important events for the open source communities. This year there are features 477 speakers, 487 sessions, and 40 tracks. Activities take place in 24 rooms spread across several buildings of the Solbosch campus of the ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

Like in the past years, Flumotion is one of the conference’s supporters and provides the live streaming from 5 conference rooms during these two days. Flumotion provides a total of 10 simultaneous live streams as each room is streamed in both OGG (Theora – Vorbis) and WebM (VP8 – Vorbis).

FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organized by the community for the community. The goal is to provide Free Software and Open Source developers and communities a place to meet to:

• get in touch with other developers and projects;
• be informed about the latest developments in the Free Software and Open Source world;
• attend interesting talks and presentations on various topics by Free Software and Open Source project leaders and committers;
• to promote the development and the benefits of Free Software and Open Source solutions.

Read more about the event and its history here

Flumotion Featured in Talk at GStreamer Conference 2010

October 26, 2010 in Open Source Video with 0 Comments

This year’s one day GSstreamer Conference kicked off today in Cambridge, UK, taking place one day before CE Linux Europe. The conference focuses on GSstreamer and related technology, featuring speakers from a wide range of companies and fields. The talks hosted will cover a range of technologies built around GStreamer aimed at embedded, desktop and server usage. There will also be a presentation on the plans for the GStreamer 1.0 release.

Zaheer Merali, Tandberg/Cisco senior software engineer and long standing GStreamer developer, will be giving a talk on Flumotion Streaming Server. Zaheer worked at Flumotion for 4 1/2 years where he heavily influenced the design and code of the open source Flumotion Streaming Server. He will discuss how Flumotion distributes GStreamer pipelines across processes and how Flumotion tries to ensure sync between different processes doing for example capture that could even be on different machines. He will also look at how Flumotion streams to the end user client, adminning a Flumotion streaming server and finally how to create your own Flumotion component. Continue Reading…

Streaming HTML5 in Open Formats

October 7, 2010 in Open Source Video, Streaming Technology with 0 Comments

Weren’t able to make to OVC10 last week and missed our live streaming? No worries, all talks will soon be available for you to enjoy on demand. In the meantime check our very own CTO and Co-founder, Thomas Vander Stichele, talking at OVC10. His session, which was kindly recorded by neuronspark, explores the advantages of a system and network architecture based on open source that enables fast integration of any format and any device. Thomas also touches on browser-native HTML5 streaming solutions using h264, WebM (VP8) and Ogg Theora. Continue Reading…

Thanks for Watching OVC10

October 4, 2010 in Online Video News, Open Source Video with 2 Comments

Flumotion live stream Open Video Conference 2010

This year’s Open Video Conference may have just ended, but we are already eagerly anticipating the next. If you were unable to make it to NYC this year and missed our live streaming, fear not, we will soon be offering all OVC sessions from the Auditorium and Amphitheater on demand. Including talks from Susan Crawford, Damian Kulash and Flumotion’s very own Thomas Vander Stichele. Continue Reading…

Open Video Conference 2010 Has Arrived: Watch it Live

October 1, 2010 in Online Video News, Open Source Video with 0 Comments

The Open Video Conference 2010 is now officially underway and you can watch the whole thing live through our OVC page in WebM or Theora.
The two-day summit explores the future of video on the web. OVC is host to inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, technology working groups, film screenings, and much more. Continue Reading…