Related Links

Manuals

Center for Independent Journalism
Some great manuals on Sound Editing, Sound Effects, Turning Sound Online, Sound Editing (advanced), Setting Up a Station and a Studio, Designing a Website http://www.cijmalaysia.org/resources.htm

Spot
Good site for some tips and tricks, especially if you use Dyne::bolic
http://spot.river-styx.com/linkage.php

Encoders

MuSE.MuSE (Linux / OSX)
The best audio encoder for Linux.
http://muse.dyne.org/

Oddcast (Windows)
Great plugin for encoding Ogg and MP3 using Winamp.
http://www.oddsock.org/tools/oddcastv3/

ostream (Windows / Linux)
A cool ogg encoder that runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and MuSE.MacOSX.
http://radiostudio.org/ostream

oggment (Linux)
- interesting tool which can encode a single audio source into a real stream and a ogg stream simultaneously... made by August Black (radio/software/media artist)...there are some other interesting tools on this site too
http://oggment.sourceforge.net/ogg-real.php

oggcaster (Linux)
- plug-in for xmms to stream ogg files to icecast2 ...looked interesting but i couldn't get it to compile... I think there was quite some activity on the development side, so it might be fixed soon... if doing encoding this way is your thing then don't forget the excellent xmms-oddcast plug-in (for icecast2) and the liveice plug-in (for icecast1 only) - both of which are available from the xmms (http://www.xmms.org) website in the plug-ins directories
http://xmms-oggcaster.sourceforge.net/

Soma (Linux)
a very interesting set of tools... sound daemon, player, encoder and scheduler... ate a whole lot of my cpu and wasn't so nice with the crossfades, otherwise i might have used it...
http://www.somasuite.org/

darkice (Linux)
A very light weight, easy to deploy command line live mp3 streamer. You may also wish to look at the GUI interface, which you need to install seperately, its called darksnow.
http://darkice.sourceforge.net/

liveice (Linux)
Encoder for icecast1. Command line
http://star.arm.ac.uk/~spm/software/liveice.html

MuSE.IceS (Linux)
Command line encoder for icecast1 and icecast2
http://svn.xiph.org/releases/ices/

Oddcast (Windows)
A great plugin for XMMS that allows you to stream MP3 or Ogg. It can be tricky to install as it requires WXWindows.
http://www.oddsock.org

MPEG4IP (Linux)
A great how to for mpeg4ip streaming to a Darwin Server
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/6720/print

Players

VLC (Windows / Linux / OSX)
The all purpose cross-platform media player. Does much more too...
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

zinf (Windows / Linux)
- many featured player but couldn't see the advantage over xmms (my preferred gui player) except that it has a built in streaming encoder/server.
http://www.zinf.org/

soundplay (beOS)
- good if you have beOS (i thought it was for linux at first)...comes with built in streaming server....
http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/soundplay.html

snackAmp (Linux/ Windows)
- hugely featured gui player... almost too many features... has a built in web-server for remote control, and a built in streaming server... I would have used it for the project i was researching if it could work as a command line interface.
http://snackamp.sourceforge.net/

sonic-rainbow (Linux)
- looks nice and simple but i never tried it... plays video too
http://sonic-rainbow.sourceforge.net/

impish (Linux)
- looked like a very sophisticated command line player but alas no crossfade and i couldn't get it to compile.
http://www.geocities.com/kman_can/

xmms (Linux)
- my favorite player if only because it does so much
http://www.xmms.org

mplayer (Linux / Windows / OSX)
- more a video player but also support audio. you can run it with or without a gui
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

Embedded Players

Flam
Flash Mp3player
http://www.flamplayer.com/

Make your own flash mp3 player

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/howto/audio.htm http://www.sonify.org/home/feature/remixology/026_mp3player/

Flow
Flash Video Player (open source)
http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/

Streaming Servers

Icecast
The best audio server on the net.
http://www.icecast.org/
An excellent Icecast Howto from Kerry Cox
http://www.gnuware.com/icecast/

Quicktime / Darwin Streaming Server
An excellent how-to for Quicktime Streaming Server, it also covers embedding Quicktime, compression, relaying streams etc
http://www.soundscreen.com/
A great quick how-to for Darwin and VLC (as a server) on Linux http://viz.aset.psu.edu/ga5in/StreamingMedia.html

gini
Looks good... didn't try it
http://gini.sourceforge.net/

Oyez
Python streaming server
http://ubertechnique.com/seth/oyez/doc/Oyez.html

oggserv
- php based daemon
http://oggserv.sourceforge.net/

litestream
- excellent streaming server with source clients and re-streamer... ultra stable
http://www.litestream.org

ample
- small streaming server
http://ample.sf.net

edna
- allows streaming of files stored on your 'server'
http://edna.sf.net

gnump3d
- another streaming server, also supports ogg
http://www.gnump3d.org

Software Repositories

Dyne
The home of really good streaming software for Linux.
http://www.dyne.org/

Oddsock
A great home for streaming tools for Windows and Linux.
http://www.oddsock.org/

Freshmeat
If you don't know it you are guaranteed to spend the next x hours browsing it.
http://freshmeat.net/

MuSE.SourceForge
Repository for many softwares.
http://www.sf.net

Version Tracker
Good for MuSE.MacHeads.
http://www.versiontracker.com/

Tucows
Who said I don't look after newbies...an oldie but still useful, especially for Windows users.
http://www.tucows.com/

GNU
Good old GNU roll your own software repository for GPL software.
http://savannah.gnu.org/

Open Content Repositories

Archive.org
Archive.org, otherwise known as the 'Internet Archive' is a place where you can store all your archived streaming files for free. The material must be licenced under Creative Commons or released to the public domain.
http://www.archive.org

ourmedia.org
Free hosting of media content for 'grass roots' media. Also for creative commons or public domain content
http://www.ourmedia.org/

v2v
Independent and activist media content storage (in ogg theora)
http://www.v2v.cc/

cc mixer
Sharing of audio samples licenced under creative commons
http://ccmixter.org/

Digital Audio and Codecs

Information on Formats

Good article on codec comparisons
http://www.cdburner.ca/digital-audio-formats-article/

ARS Technica Codecs

Good article on the difference between average, constant and variable bitrate codec settings

http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/encoding.ars

Free Codecs

xiph
The home of free codecs.
http://www.xiph.org/

ogg vorbis and theora
Information about free audio codecs and third party applications.
http://www.vorbis.com/
Very good posting on OGG
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77314

embeded ogg java player
http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/

Good Howto for streaming Theora to Icecast2
http://www.oddsock.org/guides/video.php

XVID
Open Source codec mostly used for ripping and playing DVDs. http://www.xvid.org/

Dirac
Upcoming free video codec developed by the BBC
http://dirac.sourceforge.net/

MP3 Patents
Good detailed information on MPEG related patents
http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/effects/mpeg/index.en.html

Licencing Content

Creative Commons
Alternative content licencing models.
http://creativecommons.org/

Licencing Software

Free Software Foundation

http://www.fsf.org/

What is FLOSS?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FLOSS_Concept_Booklet

PD Streaming Externals

A complete list:
http://pd.iem.at/pdb/query.html?ext=y&alb=y&qry=complete

Peer2Peer Streaming
If you want a peer2peer Ogg streamer (ogglive~) for Windows and Mac OSX versions of PD then go here:
http://www.nullmedium.de/dev/ogglive~/

Speex, MP3, P2P
Speex Codex external (Speex~) for Linux and MP3 streaming externals (Mp3cast~) for Windows and Linux (includes a MP3 peer2peer external - mp3live~ ) versions of PD available here:
http://ydegoyon.free.fr/software.html

OGG
If you want Ogg streaming for PD then you can get the pdogg~ externals in an installed version of pd-extended or by installing the pd-externals package, both are available from here:
http://pure-data.sourceforge.net/download.php

MAX/MSP Streaming Externals

MP3
Shoutcast external for streaming MP3 from MAX/MSP:
http://www.akustische-kunst.org/maxmsp/

OGG
If you want Ogg streaming for MAX then check here:
http://www.nullmedium.de/dev/oggpro/

Transcoding and Ripping

Mencoder
A good guide to transcoding using Linux and Mencoder
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide

Ripping Guides
A good DVD ripping guide for Linux
http://www.bunkus.org/dvdripping4linux/ a good how to for creating MP3s (for the slightly geeky)
http://howtos.linux.com/howtos/MP3-HOWTO-10.shtml

Video Editors (GPL)

Jahshaka
The best I've seen for Linux
http://www.jahshaka.org/
There is also a very good beginners tutorial for Jahshaka here:
http://users.pandora.be/acp/jah/

Pitivi
Under Development
http://www.pitivi.org/

Cinelerra
Good but you need lots of screen space
http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

Cinelerra Tutorials

http://www.ftconsult.com/twiki/bin/view/Cinelerra/CinelerraManualTOC http://supreetsethi.net/drupal/?q=node/20

Kino
Great editor
http://www.kinodv.org/

General
Some good notes on editing video on Linux
http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/video.html The same site has a great section on CD and DVD authoring under Linux
http://users.dslextreme.com/~craig.lawson/linux_notes/cds.html

Miscellaneous

History of MP3
A brief overview of the most popular audio format on the net.
http://www.mp3-mac.com/Pages/History_of_MP3.html

Low Tech
Great spot to learn more about software and hardware if you are in the UK. http://lowtech.org

Your Machines
Cultural event and ongoing research/writings about free software.
http://www.yourmachines.org/

MuSE.OggPlay
Play Ogg on your mobile phone
http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/

Googles beta video search
Using the VLC plugin for replay of content....
http://video.google.com/

swf.open4all
Experiment with collecting and transcoding (to flash) most commonly linked video content
http://swf.open4all.info/

Workshops

The Streaming Suitcase does various workshops including streaming, MuSE.PureData, open source audio, linux etc. Below are also highly recommended.
Julian Oliver
Blender and gaming workshops (etc)
http://selectparks.net/
http://selectparks.net/~julian
http://selectparks.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=395

Derek Holzer
MuSE.PureData and open source audio workshops (etc)
http://www.umatic.nl/info_derek.html

Tetsuo Kogawa
MuSE.MiniFM
http://anarchy.translocal.jp/MiniTV
http://www.silenttv.net