[TriLUG] June Meeting Streaming Experiment

[Michael Kimsal]

I guess I understand the sentiment of wanting to support "open source", but
what you've described is already what ustream is, except it's using Flash,
which you don't seem to like.  But it IS supported on Linux, Windows and Mac
- it's the most reasonably cross-platform way to do something like this with
a minimum of fuss.

No doubt someone could probably cobble something together and make this
happen, but is there really that much of a point when you can just use
ustream (or justin.tv, or stickam or something else)?  I suspect a volunteer
reflector sevice might not last very long, and the effort involved in
setting it up, maintaining it and providing support for people is more than
most people would care to put in to it.

By all means, if you can do it, go ahead and let us know how to use it, but
ustream.tv (or one of the alternatives) tends to be a decent balance between
speed and ease.



On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:

> I didn't get a chance to check out ustream.tv, but I generally prefer
> to avoid flash where possible.  Why not have someone at the meeting
> tie into the sound system audio, point a USB web cam at the presenter,
> and use vlc to stream the webcam and audio up to an apache box
> somewhere, which then reflects the stream to interested parties.  This
> way we're not dependent on RH's bandwidth to stream directly to all
> interested parties, we get as high quality audio/video as we can
> manage for the bandwidth, we do it all w/ open source technologies
> well suited to the task, and if the codec and containers are chosen
> sensibly we can even stream to just about any platform (linux, os x,
> even windows so we can convert the unwashed masses).  Seems like it
> wouldn't even be that hard, overall.
>
> I don't know that we have enough bandwidth at the TriLUG hosted
> servers, but I imagine someone on the list has enough spare capacity
> to donate a few Mb/s on an evening once a month.
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Tanner Lovelace<clubjuggler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:16 AM, John Mitchell<john280z at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Tanner,
> >>
> >>   IMHO, I would like to be able have available to me:
> >>
> >> 1) Live Audio (in web browser or an even simpler way?). Don't give me
> VOIP,
> >> I don't need/have it, I don't want it.
> >
> > Do you have a telephone?  What could be simpler than that.
> >
> > http://www.trilug.org/wiki/VoipMeeting
> >
> > (And, just ignore the part that says "VoIP"  and look for the part
> > that says "If you wish to use an old-fashioned telephone"....)
> >
> >> 2) The ability to see the Slide the speaker is talking about. This could
> be
> >> as simple as putting it up on a web page (see #3 below). Note, not a
> Video
> >> camera shot of the slide, as we saw last night, lighting levels for
> video of
> >> Speaker wash out slide for persons in room. To do Video of slide would
> have
> >> us switching lights ON/OFF/ON all night long. Is it that hard for the
> >> presenter to give us a copy of the presentation?
> >
> > This could easily happen if presenters would use Google Docs to
> > present, but then you have to get the presenter to agree.
> >
> >> 3) Occasional shot of Presenter. This could be as simple as a quick
> photo
> >> swapped out with #2 above. Occasional short segment of live Video.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner
> >
> >
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