BBC’s research and development team has released yet another open source project for network testing. Dubbed the Kamaelia project, released on Tuesday, is designed to simplify the creation and testing of new protocols for large-scale media delivery systems. This follows earlier efforts like the open source dirac project to create video codecs tailored
towards streaming.
Sounds interesting.
http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kamaelia/
Something for now:
Mac OS X
http://www.helios.de/products/LanTest.phtml
hylas
Didnt know BBC had a R&D dep, suppose it makes sense though.
I wonder, if theres been any communication between them and xiph.org? I could see them working together for the benefit of all
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I wonder, if theres been any communication between them and xiph.org? I could see them working together for the benefit of all
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There has been. Search the mailing list of Xiph (Theora in particular) for details. From my memory, Theora / VP3 didn’t have some features that the BBC wished for, such as interlacing.
The Dirac FAQ mentions Theora as well: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dirac/documentation/faq.htm#11