[TriLUG] June Meeting Streaming Experiment

[Michael Kimsal]

Sounds fair.  I've known a number of people use ustream and other services
to good effect.  I've also known the systems to have hiccups and not work
well.  Hiccups may have been at the service's end, or somewhere along the
way.  When there are problems, I tend to think of it as more an
infrastructure issue than with any of the specific streaming services.  I've
set up streaming services using both open source (red5) and proprietary
(windows media server) and didn't find any major difference between the
streaming capabilities of either.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:

> 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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