-Cubemap is a high-performance, high-availaility video reflector,
-specifically made for use with VLC.
+Cubemap is a high-performance, high-availability video reflector,
+specifically made for use with VLC. It is currently in alpha stage.
-Copyright 2013 Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>.
-Licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2.
+A short list of features:
+
+ - 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.
+ - Per-stream fwmark support, for TCP pacing through tc (separate config needed).
+ - Reflects anything VLC can reflect over HTTP, even the muxes VLC
+ has problems reflecting itself (in particular, FLV).
+ - IPv4 support. Yes, Cubemap even supports (some) legacy protocols.
+
+
+HOWTO:
+
+ sudo aptitude install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
+ make -j4
+
+If you want to use HTTP input (you probably want to), patch VLC with the
+included file vlc-metacube.diff. 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}'
-More information to come here, later. :-)
+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.
+
+
+Legalese:
+
+Copyright 2013 Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>.
+Licensed under the GNU GPL, version 2. See the included COPYING file.