Add suppor for raw (non-Metacube) inputs over HTTP. Only really useful for TS.

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-Cubemap is a high-performance, high-availaility video reflector,
+Cubemap is a high-performance, high-availability video reflector,
 specifically made for use with VLC.
 
-Copyright 2013 Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>.
-Licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2.
+A short list of features:
 
-More information to come here, later. :-)
+ - 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.
+
+
+HOWTO:
+
+  sudo aptitude install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libsystemd-dev
+  ./configure
+  make -j4
+
+If you want to use HTTP input (you probably want to), you want VLC 2.2.0
+or newer. Then start the VLC encoder with the “metacube” flag to the http
+access mux, like this:
+
+  cvlc [...] --sout '#std{access=http{metacube,mime=video/x-flv},mux=flv,dst=:4013/test.flv}'
+
+Then look through cubemap.config.sample, copy it to cubemap.config,
+compile and start cubemap.
+
+To upgrade cubemap (after you've compiled a new binary), or to pick up new
+config:
+
+  killall -HUP cubemap
+
+Cubemap will serialize itself to disk, check that the new binary and config
+are OK, and then exec() the new version, which deserializes everything and
+keeps going.
+
+
+Munin plugins:
+
+To activate these, symlink them into /etc/munin/plugins. If you don't put
+the files in the expected default locations (as done by 'make install'),
+you probably want some configuration in /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/cubemap or
+similar, like this:
+
+[cubemap*]
+user <something>
+env.cubemap_config /etc/cubemap/cubemap.config
+env.cubemap_stats /var/lib/cubemap/cubemap.stats
+env.cubemap_input_stats /var/lib/cubemap/cubemap-input.stats
+
+
+Legalese: 
+
+Copyright 2013 Steinar H. Gunderson <steinar+cubemap@gunderson.no>.
+Licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2. See the included COPYING file.