[TriLUG] June Meeting Streaming Experiment

[Aaron Joyner]

I'm certainly in favor of easy solutions that fill the need.  If
ustream.tv was a workable solution that fulfilled the need, presumably
we wouldn't be having this discussion, we'd just be praising Tanner
for showing off it's virtues.  :)  As I stated originally, I haven't
looked at, and have no knowledge of, ustream.tv, justin.tv, or any of
these other purported streaming/webcasting services.

To turn the tables yet again, if one of those solutions is easy and
takes advantage of someone else's bandwidth and setup for free, please
demonstrate it at the next meeting.  I'm sure we'd all love to see
this come together.

Aaron S. Joyner


On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Tanner Lovelace<clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Michael Kimsal<mgkimsal at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Michael,
>
> If by supported you mean "continually crashes the browser upon startup "
> then I'll agree.  But otherwise, after trying out ustream.tv last night, I
> wouldn't recommend it for anything.  (And, I'm not even running flash
> on Linux. I was running it on OS X.)
>
> Yes, what Aaron describes is exactly what the flash based ones
> do, but being able to get flash completely out of the way would go
> a long way towards making things more stable, I think.
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner
>
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