Hippopotamus
Posted by Sayamindu 3 years, 8 months ago
About Hippopotamus
Hippopotamus is a simple GStreamer/GTK based application which lets you stream Ogg/Theora video to a Icecast server. In other words, it acts as an easy to use source client for Icecast2. At present, it can only stream video data from v4l devices (webcames, etc) – but I plan to add support for audio within the next one or two releases. Hippopotamus was inspired by the screencasting software Istanbul, and copies heavily from it.
The name Hippopotamus
Well, I think I like hippopotami, and so I named it Hippopotamus. Besides, it gave me the oppurtunity to create such a cool logo 
. My friend Sayan, however, thinks otherwise – and here’s his explanation for the name:
- Hippos » Ancient Greek word for horse – signifying fast.
- Potamos » Ancient Greek word for river, or if you see it as we do, a stream.
So, the combination of Hippos and Potamos, ie, Hippopotamus stands for fast streamer.
OK – that was Sayan’s explanation, and not mine – I’ll simply stick to the fact that I have a fascination for hippopotami, and I like hippopotami.
Requirements
- Software
- GTK+ 2.10 or above
- Gstreamer (0.10 or above should be used for best results)
- GConf
- A running Icecast server (it need not run on your own machine, you simply need source access to the server)
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Hardware
- A v4l supported device (I have only tested with a Logitech Quickcam web camera, please do let me know how it performs with your device. I’ll be adding support for Firewire devices as soon as someone lends me/gives me a Linux supported firewire DV cam
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- A v4l supported device (I have only tested with a Logitech Quickcam web camera, please do let me know how it performs with your device. I’ll be adding support for Firewire devices as soon as someone lends me/gives me a Linux supported firewire DV cam
Screenshot
Getting the latest version
The latest version is 0.1 (which is the first release). You can download it from here.
Feedback and flames
Feedbacks and flames should be sent to me – the author. However remember this is beta software (I simply wanted to get familiar with GStreamer), so informative bug reports will be very helpful.
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