-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 (even with TLS) given a modern kernel.
+ - 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.
+ - TLS output support, through the TLSe library (requires libtomcrypt)
+ and the Linux kernel's kTLS (Linux 4.17 or newer). There are a few
+ limitations; see below.
+ - fMP4 (HLS) output support, generating playlists on-the-fly. Note that this
+ requires some extra metadata currently only set by Nageru (not VLC).
+ - IPv4 support. Yes, Cubemap even supports (some) legacy protocols.
+
+
+HOWTO:
+
+ sudo apt install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler libsystemd-dev libtomcrypt-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.
+
+Nageru, my free video mixer, can also produce Metacube streams natively.
+See the manual at https://nageru.sesse.net/doc/ for more information.
+
+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.
+
+
+Notes on TLS support:
+
+Cubemap supports TLS on output, so that you can play video on TLS
+web sites without issues with mixed content. TLS on input streams is
+not (yet) supported.
+
+TLS requires kTLS for both send and receive, ie., Linux >= 4.17 with CONFIG_TLS
+enabled. Only cipher suites supported by kTLS is supposed, ie., AES-128-GCM
+(if no such cipher suite is available, the connection will be aborted). If the
+server is restarted before the key exchange for a connection is completed,
+that connection will not survive the restart, unlike all other connections.
+(This is a TLSe limitation.) You can have different certificates on different
+ports (and have separate ports for TLS and non-TLS), but SNI is not yet
+supported.
+
+
+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.
+
+See tlse/LICENSE for TLSe licensing.
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