[PLUG] Out-of-Meeting special events

[Deepak Dinesh]

I guess this won't work with a lapop, but a bttv compatible card can
digitize video with the realserver just fine. I have used it at 56Kbps
and the quality is not too bad. Another option is to compress it using
the Divx ;-) codec (can be done with a celeron 466 320x240, realtime -
there is an app called vcr (freshmeat)). One hour of video would be
around 80 MB.

DD



On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, daniel.j.adelman.1 wrote:

>I do a bunch of streaming stuff, so I thought I'd jump in here.  First,
>Realserver Basic is free for up to 25 simultaneous connections.  In my
>experience, 25 simultaneous connections either implies a really big
>audience or incredibly patient one.  Typical viewers of streaming media
>almost never actively watch / listen for more than ten or fifteen mintues
>at a time.  So with average viewers, 25 simultaneous connections is
>about 100 viewers an hour. Apple's streaming server is
>open source and free, but as far as I know it only runs under darwin / os
>X.  Also, keep in mind that with a properly "hinted" mpeg file there's no
>need for a streaming server...The player can simply play while the file is
>still being downloaded.  Recompressing to get reasonable quality takes
>ridiculous processor time, although the hardware to do this is much
>cheaper nowadays.  I have a card that does 320x240 hardware mpeg2, and it
>was only $150.
>
>Okay, that's what I got.
>
>Dan
>
>On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, patrick.n.fitzgerald.1 wrote:
>
>> On 18 Apr 2001, Hayden Olenik wrote:
>>
>> > I've got Firewire (aka Sony iLink) on my vaio. Does anyone have a
>> > digital camcorder?
>>
>> PLUG is working on getting a digital camcorder. However, we would also
>> need some kind of streaming server program to do it. Last I checked
>> there's absolutely NO way to stream MPEG-2 without very special hardware,
>> so someone's gonna have to shell out for RealMedia server. Which is icky
>> and expensive. Unless someone wants to code one for us :)
>>
>> Digitizing is not a difficult process, it's just time intensive. I have to
>> sit and watch a plug meeting video all the way through when I capture it,
>> then do some editing and titles, then recompress it into a better format.
>> All of this takes much time. Time of which I have little. I'll get to it.
>> Probably at least partially this summer.
>>
>> P.
>>
>> --
>> "BUGS
>>      Flood pinging the broadcast address is not recommended." -- ping(1)
>>
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