NAME¶
cubemap - scalable video reflector, designed to be used with VLC
SYNOPSIS¶
cubemap [
options] [
FILE]
DESCRIPTION¶
cubemap is a high-performance, high-availability video reflector,
specifically made for use with VLC.
- •
- High-performance, through a design with multiple worker
threads, epoll and sendfile (yes, sendfile); a 2GHz quadcore can saturate
10 gigabit Ethernet, given a modern kernel, a modern NIC and the right
kernel tuning.
- •
- High-availability. You can change any part of the
configuration (and even upgrade to a newer version of Cubemap) by changing
cubemap.config and sending a SIGHUP; all clients will continue as if
nothing had happened (unless you delete the stream they are watching, of
course). Cubemap also survives the encoder dying and reconnecting.
- •
- Support for setting max pacing rate through the fq packet
scheduler (depends on Linux 3.13 or newer).
- •
- Reflects anything VLC can reflect over HTTP, even the muxes
VLC has problems reflecting itself (in particular, FLV).
- •
- Multicast support, both for sending and receiving (supports
only protocols that can go over UDP, e.g. MPEG-TS). Supports both ASM and
SSM.
- •
- IPv4 support. Yes, Cubemap even supports (some) legacy
protocols.
OPTIONS¶
- --test-config, -t
- tests the config and exits
- FILE
- configuration file (defaults to cubemap.config in the
current directory)
AUTHOR¶
cubemap was written by Steinar H. Gunderson
<sgunderson@bigfoot.com>.
LICENSE¶
cubemap is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
SEE ALSO¶
vlc(1)
