begin quoting Neil Schneider as of Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:41:58PM -0700: > > Sorry for all the pronouns, I don't remember who said what, just he > gist of the conversation: > > Someone asked at the KPLUG installfest if there was a way that we > could make available video of the meetings. Someone else said, that it > would require a lot of additional software, like a streaming server, a > fast connection from the meeting room to our server, and that would > require a lot of technical work.
Hardware and time, mostly. A camera, tripod, and someone to run the camera... the rest is just implementation and design details. :) Are we looking at streaming the video, or just archiving it? > Then someone asked if it could be served up as a single file for > download. Rodney Williams said there are video cameras that directly > output MPEG4. Gus responded that our bandwidth is donated and it would > be an imposition to use so much by serving up such large files. Perhaps we could pay for our bandwidth? > Then the topic of bit torrent came up. Suppose KPLUG members set up a > torrent to provide the files, and the server is used as the tracker. > That would distribute the files and bandwidth across multiple > connections, thus not impacting any one person or location. So we'd upload the big video file to sparky, then select KPLUG members would pull that file from sparky and rehost that file on their machines as part of a torrent? > I think it's an interesting topic for discussion. What do you think? It's a worthwhile discussion. > Is the idea of using a torrent practical? Should we just provide it in > raw format or should it be edited down? Who would volunteer to do the > editing? How long would we make the files available? ...do we need to get presenters to sign copyright disclaimers? When do the lawyers get involved? -- Not everyone likes being videotaped. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
