Palantir 2.7

Palantir is a Linux-based streaming system designed to transmit live video, audio and data over a TCP/IP network, as well as to control remote devices.
Palantir program is named after a word invented by J. R. R. Tolkien and mentioned in his tales, whose meaning is far-seer. The correct pronounciation requires the "i" in "tir" to be accented.
While conceptually similar to the many webcam-like products populating the modern Internet, some unique features set a considerable distance between Palantir and its competitors.
Main features:
- The video streaming section was designed with performance in mind. Even a low-end machine can directly sustain the load of many hundreds of clients, without the need for an intermediate buffering server.
- The vast choice of clients able to display the live video stream ranges from regular web browsers to a specialized client for Windows which requires no installation - just download and go.
- A Qt-based client for Linux is also available.
- The availability of a full-duplex, telephone-quality audio channel permits communication between server and one client at a time - your remotely controlled site is just a microphone and a speaker away.
- A supplementary, bidirectional data channel enables clients to operate hardware devices of any kind connected to the server via a serial line, as well as to get feedback from them and present it to the user in graphical form. Examples of these devices include pan/tilt/zoom machinery, flood lights, temperature sensors, strain gauges, etc..
Palantir can stream over a LAN, a VPN, or the Internet at large. Fields of application span from surveillance to entertainment, industrial process control and site monitoring.