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Remember that Spanish company that was covered on Slashdot a while back, called Fluendo?

They had developed an open source streaming server called Flumotion, which supported Ogg (Theora video with Vorbis audio).

Even cooler, they have also released a Java Applet called Cortendo, which can play back such streams from a Flumotion server within any Java-enabled browser. It doesn't need any third party player or plugin and it is fully based on open source en open formats!

Now how cool is that? :)

They have a publicly accessible continuous demo stream running, showing them at work in their office, although the stream is sometimes down. I checked it out once, and the video quality is quite impressive.

It's free, it's open source and it allows people to view your streams with minimal effort. Why not try this option?

This is their web site.

If it is satisfactory, don't forget to support these guys. They've done some excellent work on this and their decision to release their code under the GPL license should be rewarded!

Ah, I finally found the Slashdot article here:

Theora Codec Ported to Java

Also, this same technology was used to webcast the GUADEC conference in Norway a while back.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with this company or its employers in any way.

Java applet that streams Ogg Theora video: Fluendo.

Reported on Slashdot.

You can check it on live here http://mirror.fluendo.com/hq/ and download the codec for windows here http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ and you can find examples here http://www.theora.org/torrents/

I think Ogg/theora is really a great choice because it's free (beer && speech) and most people that use realplayer10 have it installed already (this is true especially in Europe now that windows is not bundle with windows media player annymore, it's going to be bundle with realplayer :)). Also there is that cool JAVA applet here http://mirror.fluendo.com/hq/ with this you DON'T NEED to have theora codec on your computer, the applet is free and open source too. Plus theora is evolving very quiclky with cool features added every day

In fact, many programmers will probably "give away the razor and charge for the blades" by creating software frameworks then charging reasonable fees for custom enhancements as users desire them.

Examples: Fluendo, Canonical, and Imendio. They're all pretty new companies, so while we may not know how sound the business model is, we'll know soon.

Well you'll be happy to hear that Fluendo have just released their new streaming server "Flumotion" that streams ogg vorbis.

*achoo!*

Cheers
Stor

I was just using the Icesoft Java web browser and the Fluendo media player. These are both big applications written in 100% pure Java. They both don't have buffer overflows because Java doesn't have buffers (in the C sense). How many security holes do we need to see every week?