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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Frikanalen - Complete TV station organised using the web</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 3rd March 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Do you want to set up your own TV station, schedule videos and
  26 broadcast them on the air?  Using free software?  With video on demand
  27 support using
  28 <a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and
  29 open standards</a>?  Included a web based video stream as well?  And
  30 administrate it all in your web browser from anywhere in the world?  A
  31 few years now the Norwegian public access TV-channel
  32 <a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a> have been building a
  33 system to do just this.  The source code for the solution is licensed
  34 using the GNU LGPL, and
  35 <a href="http://github.com/Frikanalen">available from github</a>.</p>
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  37 <p>The idea is simple.  You upload a video file over the web, and
  38 attach meta information to the file.  You select a time slot in the
  39 program schedule, and when the time come it is played on the air and
  40 in the web stream.  It is also made available in a video on demand
  41 solution for anyone to see it also outside its scheduled time.  All
  42 you need to run a TV station - using your web browser.</p>
  43
  44 <p>There are several parts to this web based solution.  I'll mention
  45 the three most important ones.  The first part is the database of
  46 videos and the schedule.  This is written in Django and include a REST
  47 API.  The current database is SQLite, but the plan is to migrate it to
  48 PostgreSQL.  At the moment this system can be tested on
  49 <a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/">beta.frikanalen.tv</a>.  The
  50 second part is the video playout, taking the schedule information from
  51 the database and providing a video stream to broadcast.  This is done
  52 using <a href="http://www.casparcg.com/">CasparCG from SVT</a> and
  53 <a href="http://www.mltframework.org/">Media Lovin' Toolkit</a>.  Video
  54 signal distribution is handled using
  55 <a href="http://www.ob-encoder.com/">Open Broadcast Encoder</a>.  The
  56 third part is the converter, handling the transformation of uploaded
  57 video files to a format useful for broadcasting, streaming and video
  58 on demand.  It is still very much work in progress, so it is not yet
  59 decided what it will end up using.  Note that the source of the latter
  60 two parts are not yet pushed to github.  The lead author want to clean
  61 them up a bit more first.</p>
  62
  63 <p>The development is coordinated on the
  64 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23frikanalen">#frikanalen IRC
  65 channel</a> (irc.freenode.net), and discussed on
  66 <a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/frikanalen">the
  67 frikanalen mailing list</a>. The lead developer is Benjamin Bruheim
  68 (phed on IRC).  Anyone is welcome to participate in the
  69 development.</p>
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  72       <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.</div>
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