Welcome to Boxtream : a Free video streaming solution, and much more !

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Boxtream is both a software and a hardware project, although the software part can of course be used independantly. You can give a look at the general architecture here.

Boxtream is Free Software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License of the Free Software Foundation version 3.0 or, at your option, any higher version.

Boxtream is a mobile and autonomous audio and video streaming and recording studio. Of course, depending on your own hardware choices, the number and extent of capabilities and the quality of the final results may vary, but at least the software part should be versatile enough to accomodate even the most basic hardware.

Boxtream was mostly designed to stream live courses featuring a professor and his slides (or any other computer based output like software training, web browser, video player...), but can also be used to stream congresses, interviews and the like.

Feel free to send feedback or questions about Boxtream directly to Jerome Alet until we find the time to setup a dedicated mailing list.

Features and Demos :

Click here to see the more or less complete list of Features and here to see some Screenshots. You can also give a look at our plans to see which features will be supported in future releases. Finally, we've put online some real examples of what we usually do with Boxtream :

• Example 1 - 6th International Relations, Medicine School, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (audio is in french)
• Example 2 - Demonstration of Laerdal's SimMan, Medicine School, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (audio is in french, excepted the latest one which is in english)
• Example 3 - Concordia Base (Antarctica), Conference by Eric Fossat and Visioconferencing with the team at Concordia Base, Dome C, Antarctica (audio is mostly in french and a bit in italian)
• Example 4 - Richard M. Stallman : Ethique et pratique du Logiciel Libre, Conference by RMS at Polytech' Nice-Sophia on May 5th 2008 (audio is mostly in french)
• Example 5 - Demontration of Boxtream's minimal hardware needs, showing how you can use Boxtream even if all you have is an USB Webcam and a microphone.

Boxtream currently features the following scenarios :

• DV Presenter on the left with DV slides on the right
• DV Slides on the left with DV presenter on the right
• DV Presenter with no slides
• DV Slides with no presenter
• DV Audio only
• Analog video input (e.g. /dev/video0) + Alsa audio source (e.g. microphone)
• DV Presenter, no slides, no clock, no streaming
• Of course, your own scenarios can also be used.

Boxtream is made of :

• SoftWare -- Our software is written in the Python language and does heavy use of the GStreamer framework. Additional Free Software is installed on the Box, for visioconferencing, non-linear audio or video editing, and so on...
• HardWare -- We only use hardware which doesn't need any proprietary driver or software.

Download :

• End users : Boxtream v0.999 Tarball
• Developers : svn checkout http://subversion.unice.fr/boxtream/trunk boxtream

Links

• Who's Who ? -- the Box'Team
• The Boxtream project -- Boxtream Free Software Project

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.