On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 03:04:33PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:23:14PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > So, where do we get encoding servers? > > > > > > As to hardware: I will have a few spare laptops, we can use some of those > > > as encoding "servers". They should be fairly modern, and thus capable > > > enough to do this. "a few" means: I have rented one more than I need, > > > strictly > > > speaking; the rental people said they'll add one extra "just in case"; > > > and I also have my two-year-old personal HP laptop which I'm not > > > personally using but which otherwise is still in good enough condition. > > > If needs be, I can bring my DVD player (a 2.8Ghz Core2Duo or > > > thereabouts in a desktop case) as well. Four machines for transcoding > > > five DV streams should be plenty, and we can probably put all of them at > > > the NOC. > > > > so how many do you have in total? > > > > There are 6 in Paris and if needed, I could probably also bring an extra > > one. > > Including the ones from Paris, excluding the ones I'm renting for other > people in the organization, there will be 6 (IRILL) + 8 (rental) + 1 > (rental, probably, not confirmed) + 2 (mine) - 3 (two infodesk laptops, > one for lightning talks), for a grand total of 14. > > We need two per room (a DVswitch/camera capture laptop, a twinpact > grabber laptop), so that leaves 10 spare.
er s/10 spare/4 spare/, obviously :-) > Unless you think I'm miscalculating something. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list Debconf-video@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video