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Information about the BigBrotherAwards Stream
The BigBrotherAwards are broadcast live on the Internet. The broadcast starts as the ceremony begins and ends with it.
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 applet on the streaming page should start and show the stream immediately. It should work in most current browsers in reasonable quality.
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, which should more or less cover all current operating systems. So-called Directshow filters are available for Windows. Please point your player to http://streaming.foebud.org:8800/.
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.
Audience Award 2008