[TriLUG] June Meeting Streaming Experiment

[Mark Kempster]

Has anybody been successful with dimdim on linux? I personally have
not, but google seems to think it's doable.

http://www.dimdim.com/

Mark

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:55 AM, David Black<dave at jamsoft.com> wrote:
> 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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