Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of restream

Timestamp:

Oct 27, 2016, 3:22:09 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Jamie McClelland

Comment:

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restream

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 Restream allows us to take a jitsi meeting and send the video and audio to our icecast servers, which are designed to handle hundreds of simultaneous connections.
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+You can use restream to simply broadcast a jitsi meet video conference, or you can use it to setup a dedicated page on https://participate.mayfirst.org/ that incorporates both the icecast stream and the jitsi chat.
 
 This page documents how to use restream.
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 == Setup ==
 
+=== Just send to icecast ===
+
 First, ensure you have joined the jitsi meeting using the browser you intend to use for your own participation. This step ensures you are granted moderator rights.
 
-Next, login to dee.mayfirst.org as root:
+Login to dee.mayfirst.org as root:
 
 {{{
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 }}}
 
-Next, launch the stream specifying the final part of the jitsi URL. In other words, if your jitsi meeting is at https://meet.mayfirst.org/mfpl, you would specify "mfpl" as the only argument, e.g.:
+Launch the stream specifying the final part of the jitsi URL. In other words, if your jitsi meeting is at https://meet.mayfirst.org/mfpl, you would specify "mfpl" as the only argument, e.g.:
 
 {{{
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 docker rm mfpl
 }}}
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+=== The full deal ===
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+If you want to create a special room for being to both watch the icecast stream and participate in the chat (and even present the agenda), you can use the `restream-setup` command.
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+Specify the start time, stop time and the name like so:
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+{{{
+restream-setup now "1 hour" mymeeting
+}}}
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+Or...
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+{{{
+restream-setup "2016-02-12 09:00" "2016-02-12 11:00" checkin
+}}}
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+Then, `restream-setup` will output details about your meeting, including the URL to send people to watch (which will be `https://participate.mayfirst.org/<name>).
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+A once a minute cron job takes care of starting and stopping your docker instance (that way we won't accidentally leave CPU hungry processes running).
 
 == How it works ==