[Sugar-devel] GSoC Proposal: Multimedia Broadcasting

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:43, Geza Kovacs <gkovacs at mit.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 12:20 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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>> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 05:08:25AM -0400, Geza Kovacs wrote:
>> >Since the objective is to broadcast an audio and video stream to the
>> >masses, I don't aim to use telepathy for this purpose; rather I aim to
>> >use an icecast server which runs on the broadcasting machine.
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>> Please note that if you assume that the presenter machine is more
>> powerful than an XO then you should probably mention that pretty clearly
>> - - as that is probably not the default assumption.
>>
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> The overhead of having Icecast running on an XO-1 didn't seem anywhere
> near as large as the overhead of the video encoding,

May not change much your statement, but I think that theora encoding
performance has improved a lot in recent times. Might be worth
checking again.

Regards,

Tomeu