[TriLUG] requirements for classes...

[Aaron S. Joyner]

As Rock pointed out, recording something already low-bandwidth friendly 
would be very different than the situation you propose of recording 
entire meetings.  I don't think we have the bandwidth resources to do 
that and provide it available over the web, yet.  On the other hand, I 
wouldn't be too opposed to DV'ing the meetings, and providing copies of 
them on DVD for archival by TriLUG.  I have a nice Sony MiniDV cam, 
although I would need to purchase or in some way acquire a tripod 
suitable for extended recording.  Net result being that TriLUG could 
develop an archive, and potentially sell the DVDs (to cover the cost of 
media), to those club members who might be interested in catching back 
meetings.  Another option would be keep one copy  of each meeting in the 
TriLUG library (retaining a backup copy, of course), and if someone 
wanted to check out the DVD and make their own copy, that would be 
perfectly acceptable.

If we can compress a meeting acceptably, where it could be delivered 
digitally, that's just an added bonus.  I don't think that's too far 
beyond realistic, but it would take some experimentation to find what an 
acceptable compression level is, for both viewing and bandwidth 
considerations.  At the very least, we should make the audio available, 
as that's a piece of cake.

Aaron J.


Turnpike Man wrote:

>A semi similar discussion came up, some by yours truely, on digital video
>archives of the monthly meetings, in particular for those who miss the
>speaker/presentation.  This was quickly nixed due to a few reasons:
>
>1.  Who would be responsible for taking the video (I couldn't volunteer myself
>b/c I can hardly make it to the meetings when I want to, much less training
>sessions.)  Requires ownership of a DV cam and the ability to make it available
>at all functions.
>
>2.  Who will dedicate time to do the capture and compression of said
>video/audio?
>
>3.  Who will store it... HD storage is apparently an issue for TriLUG iirc.
>
>4.  And based on the above, cost and hardware resources are the final slam
>(including the bandwidth limitations we have).
>
>If you want to see this discussion, I'm sure you can search for it in our
>archives, it happened in the last 6 months or less and I was one of the
>involved parties.
>
>So, in light of the above, it would seem TriLUG does not have the resources.  I
>would like to think that a group of this caliber could change that.  Are we
>soliciting enough donations?  I mean, if the web pages that got us to the
>video/audio archives of the meetings and training classes gave ad space based
>on donations to help us deliver services... would anyone really be that upset??
> I for one would love to see these types of things implemented, but I
>unfortunately don't currently have the time to offer to help make it happen. 
>Maybe someone who can will step forward.
>
>laters,
>David M.
>
>--- sholton at mindspring.com wrote:
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>>Thus Quoth "Timothy A. Chagnon" <tchagnon at nc.rr.com>:
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>>>Yes, the protocol (rfb?) that vnc uses is wicked simple and can be
>>>snooped by just capturing the data stream and playing it back with a
>>>slightly modified vncviewer.  Really just mouse & keyboard to server and
>>>chunks of image to client.  You need a man-in-the middle sort of proxy. 
>>>I set it up for a client last year that wanted to keep records of
>>>emergency (fix-the stupid M$-SQL server) off-hours vnc stuff.
>>>      
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>>So, with TriLUG's cooperation, we could not only have on-line 
>>classes, but we could archive them for later replay by those 
>>for whom the class starting time is a problem.
>>
>>How difficult would it be to capture the voice path for playback
>>in the same way?
>>
>>Are there any of the "requirements for classes" we _haven't_
>>demolished yet?
>>
>>-- 
>>Steve Holton
>>sholton at mindspring.com
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