Fazantix video streaming box

Live-streaming a conference is deceptively hard: coordinating cameras, laptops, audio, and encoding across multiple (sometimes even dozens!) of rooms requires reliable, purpose-built gear that most events cannot afford or build themselves.

This project aims to deliver a compact, all-in-one capture and streaming box using open hardware and running free software with mainline Linux kernel support. The box ingests slides, camera feed and audio, mixes and hardware- encodes everything to 1080p h264, optionally mirrors a local backup, and pushes a stream to the network with minimal operator intervention. Battle tested at FOSDEM with 30 parallel tracks and events across Europe, Asia and beyond, this iteration focuses on slashing cost and size while making the system approachable enough for any conference to deploy without specialist knowledge.