Information about the BigBrotherAwards Stream
The BigBrotherAwards are broadcast live on the Internet. The broadcast begins and ends with the awards gala.
We use this occasion to make a small statement against software patents by streaming in the free "Theora" video format (http://www.theora.org), which is transported via OGG like the now popular "Vorbis" audio format.
The inline frame in our streaming page tries to choose a working format for the largest possible selection of browsers. The Ogg/Theora stream data is either embedded into a HTML 5 document using the browsers’ own player, or into a page with a Java player applet, or the stream data is delivered directly.
If you find the applet unusable or undesirable, you can open the stream in a video player. The stream should work in every player that is prepared to play the Ogg/Theora format. Among these are mplayer, xine, helix player and the VideoLAN
client (VLC), which should more or less cover all current operating systems. So-called Directshow filters are available for Windows (this is not required if you use the VLC player). Please point your player to http://streaming.fargonauten.de/bba2011.pls.
Our software for serving the stream is "Flumotion" (http://www.fluendo.com/). The Java applet is named "Cortado" and is also developed by Fluendo.
We intend to offer the stream data as a download after some editing time, and also sell it as a DVD in the FoeBuD Shop. We will announce the results on this page.
