LibrePlanet: Conference/2015/Streaming

THIS PAGE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

We will be updating this page in the coming days after the conference.

Equipment Used

Video

• 1x Elphel 353 (http://elphel.com)
• 1x Camera Stand

Audio

• 2x XLR Microphones
• 2x Microphone Stands
• 1x USB sound boards
• 4x XLR cables
• 2x 6.35mm male to XLR female adapter

Streaming/Capture

• 1x X200 Thinkpad (with LibreBoot, http://libreboot.org)
• 1x Streaming Server (Virtual Machine)
  • 16GB SSD
    • 4GB RAM

Screen Capture

• 1x X200 Thinkpad (with LibreBoot, http://libreboot.org)
  • 250GB SSD
  • 4GB RAM

Software Used

• IceCast2

The following software was compiled and installed via the OpenVideo Reference Build project (https://gitorious.org/openvideo_reference_build) on Trisquel 7 GNU/Linux (https://trisquel.info).

• GStreamer (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/)
• Jack Audio Server (http://jackaudio.org/)
• (need to add the rest)

Set up

Camera

• Unpack the gigabit switch
• Plug the switch into the mains
• Use an ethernet cable to plug the switch into the local network of the site.
• Unpack Elphel 353 camera and attach it to the tripod.
• Attach an ethernet cable into the RJ-45 connector on the camera
• Plug the other end of the cable into the PoE injector.
• Plug the PoE injector into the switch
• Plug the PoE injector into the mains

At this point you should have ave the Elphel 353 camera attached to a tripod, powered on, with the network connection physically setup.