(LS)³ - Libre Streaming, Libre Software, Libre Standards is a Open source software project for the development of a software suite to stream multimedia contents. The platform is based on the full support of the IETF's standards for the real-time data transport over IP. The aim of the project is to provide an open solution, free and interoperable along with the proprietary streaming applications currently dominant on the market. All (LS)³ software is released under the GNU GPL license.

The main effort of the Linux based project is the streaming server Fenice, supporting:

• IETF protocols: RTP/RTCP, RTSP and SDP.
• On-demand and Live Streaming.
• Audio/Video Synchronization.
• Metadata delivery: title, author, copyright, CreativeCommons Licence Agreement.
• VCR-like access control.
• Support for unicast and multicast sessions.
• Video:
  • MPEG-1
  • MPEG-2
  • MPEG-4
  • H.264
  • in development: OGG/Theora

• Audio:
  • MP3 (MPEG-1 Layer III)
  • linear PCM
  • GSM-AMR
  • in development: OGG/Vorbis

• Supported players are
  • VLC player
  • Real Player
  • MPlayer
  • NeMeSI (from the (LS)³ project)

External links

• (LS)³ - Libre Streaming, Libre Software, Libre Standards, project site
• [http://streaming.polito.it/files/omsp-brochure.pdf 1-page PDF-overview