WHITEHORSE – With a mission to develop products and services for broadcasters of any size, OpenBroadcaster offers open source broadcasting solutions to individuals, small-to-medium sized businesses and communities which allow them to distribute media over the air and via the Internet.
The company says in a recent release that it aims “to strengthen links between communities and cultures globally by supporting and facilitating the formation of broadcaster networks that are capable of pooling resources, jointly managing media, and sharing stories.”
In support of that mission, the company announced this week the release of new open source software to provide Livewire\RTP support with Axia Audio over IP (AoIP) consoles. This added functionality “presents the opportunity to easily field, deploy and integrate standalone OBPlayer into the AoIP broadcast chain with CAP EAS emergency alerts,” reads the release.
“This innovation builds on the suite of web-enabled general software and automation appliances with online media libraries, community play lists, multi-station scheduling and streaming.”
This open source software can provide community media and commercial broadcasters with accessible tools and was developed over two years in Vancouver, Saskatchewan and Whitehorse. The new public Ver 5x series source code, documentation and installation instructions are available on Github for all to use.
CJUC 92.5 FM “The Juice” community radio station in Whitehorse, Yukon will be receiving the new Axia DESQ console to compliment their OpenBroadcaster run radio station.
Pictured are OpenBroadcaster’s Rob Hopkins, left and CJUC’s Bill Polonsky. Photo by Arch Bould.
