[needs-packaging] OpenMASH - video streamer multicaster

[Tree MendUs]

URL:
http://www.openmash.org

Description:
 Open Mash is several things:
    * Mash is a comprehensive toolkit for multimedia communication and collaboration over the Internet using IP multicast. Mash supports live media broadcasting, N-way conferencing, and session capture and replay.
    * Mash is an outgrowth of the Internet MBone tools developed to support streaming audio and video applications. Mash includes its own versions of MBone tools like sdr, vic, and vat.
    * Mash is an open-source project that depends on the support of users and developers like you.
    * MASH is a "Multimedia Architecture that Scales across Heterogeneous environments". We pretend the original acronym never existed.

OpenMash works on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS and Solaris.
Currently experimental, but also useful.

Tools Include -
    * nsdr * - another session directory tool
    * vat * - audio conferencing tool
    * vic * - video conferencing tool
    * mb - shared whiteboard tool
    * collaborator * - combined user interface to video, audio and mediaboard conferencing
    * Archive tools
          o recorder * - recorder for RTP (video, audio) and SRM (mediaboard) traffic
          o player * - player for recorded RTP and SRM sessions
          o rover - client for interacting with MARS archive server
    * Pathfinder - web server for live and archive interaction
    * AS1 - active service framework
          o hm - host manager
          o megafor - forwarding agent (for clients without multicast capability)
          o mgamon - monitoring tool which displays host managers and servents
    * MPlug - a web browser plugin for Mash scripts

Services Include -
    * Media Gateways
          o vgw - video gateway
          o agw - audio gateway
          o sdgw - session announcements gateway
          o tgmb - reliable multicast proxy for the Mash MediaPad
    * MARS - Mash Archive Server

License:
Mash is distributed under the BSD license or, more precisely, what GNU calls the modified BSD license. Mash is OSI Certified Open Source Software and is GNU GPL-compatible.

Can Mash be used in commercial products?
The vast majority of the source code used in Mash does not have any restrictions on commercial use. However, a few small portions (CellB, Netvideo, XML Parser) may not be used commercially without the prior permission of the copyright holders. You should either obtain the proper permissions or compile without these pieces of code. See the LICENSE file distributed with Mash for more information.
see http://www.openmash.org/about/faq.html

Downloads:
http://www.openmash.org/users/downloads.html
source code
http://www.openmash.org/developers/code.html
CVS
http://www.openmash.org/developers/cvs/index.html

please compile a version for AMD64 - a good multimedia platform.

[Luke Jennings (ubuntujenkins)]

Packages for this software appear to exist in ubuntu already although not for recent distributions.