> > I don't think going full screen would make it any better, there's just a > lot of compression/frame reduction/pixel reduction/magic sauce there to get > the performance needed for the live stream. > > Well, does it have to be a *live* stream? If we're not doing remote Q&A or > on-screen collaboration (just one way feed), would there be any advantage to > making it a non-streamed canned movie (various formats)? If that would > result in better picture quality for everyone, it might be worth losing the > real-time aspect of it. It would also let viewers see it later (time shift) > or replay parts of it. I guess this would be getting into "TiVO" mode. > > I think the live stream really is the point of it. I'm getting the impression that the streaming is just a way to accommodate people who can't make it for whatever reason. If the webcast version is good enough, quite a lot of people might lose their motivation to attend at all. I for one don't like presenting to an empty room. On a few occasions I've even presented to 3-4 people with others watching a webcast or looking at my slides while listening to me talk over the phone. The presentation definitely loses something for everyone involved.
> > A simpler solution to a screen cast would be to simply insure that the > slides are available to download when the meeting starts. Then you get the > benefit of the live stream, and clear slides without any more bandwidth > concerns. > > Yes, that would be helpful, to be able to bring up slides locally, > side-by-side with the stream presentation. That assumes that stream quality > is good enough that we can tell which slide we're looking at, and that every > slide is clearly labeled in case the presenter needs to jump around. Is > there a standard format for slides that we can agree upon? How far in > advance would slides have to be uploaded so that people can grab them before > the meeting starts? > I don't know that we really even need to agree on a format for this to work. Referring to slides by number is usually pretty effective in my experience, though I suppose that could vary quite a bit with the audience. And would slides need to be up more than a few minutes in advance? If the process is simple enough I wouldn't mind downloading the slides as the presentation was beginning, though I would prefer to be in the room. (-: Depending on file size, it might be nice to give people on dial-up a few minutes to grab them, but I presume that most people on dial-up wouldn't try to watch streaming video, either. /thor
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