David Schleef just blogged about his recent improvements to the Streaming Server project. This 100% open source project can be downloaded from Entropy Wave Open Source.

What it is?

GSS is a standalone HTTP server implemented as a library.  Its special focus is to serve live video streams to thousands of clients, mainly for use inside an HTML5 video tag.  It’s based on GStreamer, libsoup, and json-glib, and uses Bootstrap and BrowserID in the user interface.

GSS comes with a streaming server application that is essentially a small wrapper around the library.  This application is referred to as the Entropy Wave Streaming Server (ew-stream-server); the code that is now GSS was originally split out of this application.  The app can be found in the tools/ directory in the source tree.

Current features :

• Streaming formats: WebM, Ogg, MPEG-TS.  (FLV support is waiting for a flvparse element in GStreamer.)
• Streams in different formats/sizes/bitrates are bundled into a single “program”.
• Streaming to Flash via HTTP.
• Authentication using BrowserID.
• Automatic conversion from properly formed MPEG-TS to HTTP Live Streaming.
• Automatic conversion to RTP/RTSP (Experiemental, works for Ogg/Theora/Vorbis only.)
• Stream upload via HTTP PUT (3 different varieties), Icecast, raw TCP socket.
• Stream pull from another HTTP streaming server.
• Content protection via automatic one-time URLs.
• (Experimental) Video-on-Demand stream types.
• Per-stream, per-program, and server metrics.
• HTTP configuration interface and REST API is used to control the server, allowing standalone operation and easy integration with other web servers.