All releases of boxtream
Release Notes: This releases fixes a very old bug which prevented boxtream's GUI from working with wxWidgets 2.8. A lot of minor bugs were fixed. The audio and video quality sliders are now percent based, instead of being based on the audio and video codecs. You can now overlay a picture (e.g. TV logo) from the start of encoding without any need for mouse clicks. Additional environment variables are now exported from the backend to the script launched when the recording stops, allowing the automated publication of DV files onto an Apple XGrid podcasting station (example configuration files are now included).
Release Notes: For the very first time, three basic scenarios have been added for people with minimalistic hardware like a single USB Webcam or mini-DV camcorder, so finally Boxtream can be used by everybody. An example script to start both the backend and the frontend on the local machine has been added to further simplify use. Axis Webcams are now handled with the souphttpsrc GStreamer plugin. Minor bugs were fixed all over the place. A small French presentation of the project's history was added to the distribution in the OpenDocument format.
Release Notes: Basic support for Kramer video switchers was added. An A/V sync problem in the default hardware configuration was fixed. Graphviz dot files are generated automatically from the running GStreamer pipeline. The package now includes the schema of the general hardware architecture. Lots of small bugfixes and improvements were done all over the place. Licensing terms were changed to GNU GPL 3.0 or later. Be aware that you must delete the existing version before installing this one, since the streaming scenarios have been renamed.
Release Notes: This is the first release that fully supports custom made scenarios, and this feature is now documented on the Web site with an example. The handling of command line options is now smarter. Multithreading support was improved, and now streaming pipelines are correctly stopped. A lot of minor bugs were fixed all over the place. The Web site contains real world examples of what is usually done with this project, as a three hour streaming session cut into 14 parts.
Release Notes: This is the first release where the minimal hardware requirement is a single firewire device (e.g. a simple camcorder), making third party uses and contributions possible even from people without expensive hardware. A problem which prevented audio-only streaming was fixed. Users can now easily create their own streaming and recording scenarios. Basic support for Axis 24XX cameras servers as switcher's inputs controllers is included, but currently not documented. The video balance now only controls one side when a two-sides scenario is used.
Release Notes: The encoder can now generate a Python source program which can record a different event at a later date while using the very same scenario. For example, switching between inputs or adding and removing text overlays will be done at exactly the same time, and the type of recording, the video balance values, and so on will be exactly the same as they were during the recording of the original event. The generated program is a headless XML-RPC client to the encoder, which defaults to talking to the encoder running on localhost, but which can also talk to a remote encoder. Minor bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: The threading model and remotely accessible API were simplified. The commands launched at the beginning and ending of a recording are now launched asynchronously. Screenshots were removed from the development and distribution trees to create much smaller tarballs, and were uploaded to the Web site instead. Several minor fixes and code changes were made. The subversion repository is now available through Apache instead of through svnserve. The bug tracker is now publicly accessible.
Release Notes: Basic support was added for Panasonic WJ-MX50 professional digital mixing desks, currently recognized as 4x2 seamless video switchers. Some fixes were done to the Extron driver to allow a clean autodetection of the video switcher driver to use, because it conflicted with the new Panasonic driver. The included examples scripts now generate HTML code to load the cortado applet automatically. The documentation was improved. There are several minor changes all over the place. The Web site was relocated to its own virtual server.
Release Notes: Several bugs were fixed all over the place. A check is now done to warn the graphical frontend user if his version of the software doesn't match the one installed on the encoding backend side. The documentation was improved. The subversion repository was moved to a permanent one. A demo of a recording was added to the Web site.
Release Notes: An input field was added to the GUI to ask for a mandatory copyright message which will be used during the video fade-in and also during the video-fadeout if no video title was defined. The copyright message is also saved into the recording's XML description file. The GUI's status bar now displays the encoding backend's available disk space and estimated available recording duration based on the recording's hard disk bandwidth. A dump of the English help for the backend and frontend was added to the current Web site.
