[TriLUG] June Meeting Streaming Experiment

[David Black]

Clear slide images accompanied by narration would be sufficient for me, and that sort of thing is well handled by services like WebEx.  Could be WebEx can even do video - seems like I once saw it there.

Effectively combining video, audio *and* clear slides is no mean feat.  Do we really need all three?

I'd be happy to be part of a team to explore Linux-friendly and if possible, free solutions to this.

Dave

----- "Tanner Lovelace" <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Joseph Tate<dragonstrider at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Technical difficulties.  Apparently the ustream isn't stable.
> 
> "isn't stable" is putting EXTREMELY mildly.  Like I said, this was an
> experiment.
> It seemed to go well at first, but then the software (flash based)
> crashed
> and that's when things went to hell in a handbasket. :-(  After
> basically
> restarting the software probably 20-30 times (including having to
> reboot
> 3 times) I gave up. :-(
> 
> However, I did notice that we had up to 10 or so people watching the
> stream at any given time.  Based on that, it sounds like if we could
> figure out a stable way of live broadcasting meetings it would be very
> cool.
> Also, it sounds like it would be better if we had some way to make
> the
> slides much bigger on a broadcast stream.  My guess is that would
> probably
> either take 2 cameras or a direct feed from the projector.  I'm not
> ready
> to give up on this just yet, but it does sound like we have some
> significant
> technical challenges.
> 
> If anyone has some suggestions on how to proceed, I would love to
> hear
> them, thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
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