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Chris Roberts
Jul 24, 2012, 9:02:32 AM7/24/12
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Hi guys,
I've recently told Jonty that we're good to go ahead with this
project, and everyone else seems quite happy about this.
Right! Now we have a good idea of what is required, and how we fit
into things.
* We do video as well now! Wehey!
* We're going to be "part" of the AV team - and will be handling
streaming video and on demand from the various rooms.
* We want to be able to provide live streaming of our output, as well
as all of the rooms, as well as on demand recorded content, preferably
in a variety of formats.
* We should be able to get a tent, but we need to confirm our requirements
Things that need sorting out:
* Programming - we need people willing to be presenters, and generate
content. I'm not as well connected as other people on this list, so
would be great if someone could take charge of this and find some
people to make noises into a microphone in an interesting and
entertaining manner.
* Streaming from the stages - basically, we need to sort out a PC with
video and audio capture capabilities, x3 for each room. All the rooms
will have PA. We're also likely to be able to obtain cameras. More
on this later...
* Website! I'm going to email the web team (Mark Steward's domain) and
see if they can help us out here. If there's anyone on this list
who's interested in getting involved with that, let me know.
* Wiki page needs updating, probably a lot
gmc and I are across the studio setup - and are pretty confident we
can pull something together that'll do the job closer to the time (we
have no shortage of kit that I know of).
We've also been offered as many servers as we like, with practically
unlimited storage, from ByteMark. I'm currently coming up with a plan
to make best use of this. It will likely consist of a whole bunch of
servers, doing encoding and distribution and storage. Details of
exactly how are still in my head. Most of it involves fluendo, which
I've had reasonable success with in the past.
Anyone, please feel free to chip in with whatever takes your fancy!
Chris Roberts
~
http://naxxfish.eu/
I've recently told Jonty that we're good to go ahead with this
project, and everyone else seems quite happy about this.
Right! Now we have a good idea of what is required, and how we fit
into things.
* We do video as well now! Wehey!
* We're going to be "part" of the AV team - and will be handling
streaming video and on demand from the various rooms.
* We want to be able to provide live streaming of our output, as well
as all of the rooms, as well as on demand recorded content, preferably
in a variety of formats.
* We should be able to get a tent, but we need to confirm our requirements
Things that need sorting out:
* Programming - we need people willing to be presenters, and generate
content. I'm not as well connected as other people on this list, so
would be great if someone could take charge of this and find some
people to make noises into a microphone in an interesting and
entertaining manner.
* Streaming from the stages - basically, we need to sort out a PC with
video and audio capture capabilities, x3 for each room. All the rooms
will have PA. We're also likely to be able to obtain cameras. More
on this later...
* Website! I'm going to email the web team (Mark Steward's domain) and
see if they can help us out here. If there's anyone on this list
who's interested in getting involved with that, let me know.
* Wiki page needs updating, probably a lot
gmc and I are across the studio setup - and are pretty confident we
can pull something together that'll do the job closer to the time (we
have no shortage of kit that I know of).
We've also been offered as many servers as we like, with practically
unlimited storage, from ByteMark. I'm currently coming up with a plan
to make best use of this. It will likely consist of a whole bunch of
servers, doing encoding and distribution and storage. Details of
exactly how are still in my head. Most of it involves fluendo, which
I've had reasonable success with in the past.
Anyone, please feel free to chip in with whatever takes your fancy!
Chris Roberts
~
http://naxxfish.eu/
Chris Roberts
Jul 25, 2012, 2:20:07 PM7/25/12
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Um, was hoping for at least one response .... does anyone want to actually make content ? Because if not, then we may as well merge with the AV team, and just do streaming of talks. It'd save setting up a studio, and the kit can be used elsewhere.
Is there anyone aside from gmc and I who are definitely still up for doing this ?
Charles Yarnold
Jul 25, 2012, 2:29:09 PM7/25/12
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The hackables podcast will be up for doing a few live shows and I'm sure we can rustle up a lot of people at the camp to come on and present. I must admit I only skimmed the email and didn't spot about looking for "talent", I don't have enough time to take on the roll, but I'm happy to do as much prodding as I can of people!
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Chris Roberts
Jul 25, 2012, 2:35:54 PM7/25/12
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Ah, perhaps that's what other people did.
If you can mention it to anyone you think might be interested, that would be excellent !
Koen Martens
Jul 29, 2012, 4:35:22 PM7/29/12
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Hi,
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 07:20:07PM +0100, Chris Roberts wrote:
> Um, was hoping for at least one response .... does anyone want to actually
> make content ? Because if not, then we may as well merge with the AV team,
> and just do streaming of talks. It'd save setting up a studio, and the kit
> can be used elsewhere.
Oh don't worry, I will be making content. And as for the tent, let's just get that!
Also, this wednesday I will pick up about 60 dell workstations (inc screen and disk etc..)
of which i can bring a few for emfm purposes.
- gmc
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 07:20:07PM +0100, Chris Roberts wrote:
> Um, was hoping for at least one response .... does anyone want to actually
> make content ? Because if not, then we may as well merge with the AV team,
> and just do streaming of talks. It'd save setting up a studio, and the kit
> can be used elsewhere.
Also, this wednesday I will pick up about 60 dell workstations (inc screen and disk etc..)
of which i can bring a few for emfm purposes.
- gmc
Koen Martens
Aug 1, 2012, 3:29:00 PM8/1/12
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Hi!
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:02:32PM +0100, Chris Roberts wrote:
> * We do video as well now! Wehey!
> * We're going to be "part" of the AV team - and will be handling
> streaming video and on demand from the various rooms.
with firewire and analog video digitizer card, as well as a bunch of smaller
desktop machines (core2duo).
Should I bring the quad-cores with the firewire? They also have audio in,
but when using firewire one preferably loops audio through the camera
(xrl from the p/a) to avoid syncing issues.
- gmc
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 02:02:32PM +0100, Chris Roberts wrote:
> * We do video as well now! Wehey!
> * We're going to be "part" of the AV team - and will be handling
> streaming video and on demand from the various rooms.
> * Streaming from the stages - basically, we need to sort out a PC with
> video and audio capture capabilities, x3 for each room. All the rooms
> will have PA. We're also likely to be able to obtain cameras. More
> on this later...
Any news on this? I have just acquired 5 desktop-tower quad-core machines
> video and audio capture capabilities, x3 for each room. All the rooms
> will have PA. We're also likely to be able to obtain cameras. More
> on this later...
with firewire and analog video digitizer card, as well as a bunch of smaller
desktop machines (core2duo).
Should I bring the quad-cores with the firewire? They also have audio in,
but when using firewire one preferably loops audio through the camera
(xrl from the p/a) to avoid syncing issues.
- gmc
Chris Roberts
Aug 1, 2012, 4:11:11 PM8/1/12
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Hello!
That would be awesome - I've not got anywhere sourcing such things as
of yet, so sorting that out would be a load off my mind!
I don't know what we're going to do about cameras - need to find out
from the AV team what they're doing with regards to video. Most
likely, consumer grade DV cam (unless someone rocks up with some pro
cameras, then we have another problem on our hands!). So between
firewire and analogue frame capture we should be covered.
We need to cover 4 areas, from what I can remember, so 5 would give us
one to use in the Master Control Room as well? Hope that's not too
much of an ask in terms of transport....
I was thinking of using fluendo (well, flumotion) - so if we could run
up Ubuntu or similar on them that'd be cool. They got plenty of disk?
I was thinking we could do some basic top and tailing on those
machines, then publish to a SFTP server which will do all the
transcoding and push to the ondemand server for streaming.
At this point, I'm not sure which would be better - to publish the
high quality to the a VM to transcode, or to do the transcoding on the
machines you're providing. The former would use less bandwidth, but
might bottleneck. The latter might eat up more WAN bandwidth, which I
suspect will be pretty pushed!
of yet, so sorting that out would be a load off my mind!
I don't know what we're going to do about cameras - need to find out
from the AV team what they're doing with regards to video. Most
likely, consumer grade DV cam (unless someone rocks up with some pro
cameras, then we have another problem on our hands!). So between
firewire and analogue frame capture we should be covered.
We need to cover 4 areas, from what I can remember, so 5 would give us
one to use in the Master Control Room as well? Hope that's not too
much of an ask in terms of transport....
I was thinking of using fluendo (well, flumotion) - so if we could run
up Ubuntu or similar on them that'd be cool. They got plenty of disk?
I was thinking we could do some basic top and tailing on those
machines, then publish to a SFTP server which will do all the
transcoding and push to the ondemand server for streaming.
At this point, I'm not sure which would be better - to publish the
high quality to the a VM to transcode, or to do the transcoding on the
machines you're providing. The former would use less bandwidth, but
might bottleneck. The latter might eat up more WAN bandwidth, which I
suspect will be pretty pushed!
Koen Martens
Aug 5, 2012, 4:56:11 AM8/5/12
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Hya,
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:11:11PM +0100, Chris Roberts wrote:
> On 1 August 2012 20:29, Koen Martens <g...@sonologic.nl> wrote:
> > Any news on this? I have just acquired 5 desktop-tower quad-core machines
> > with firewire and analog video digitizer card, as well as a bunch of smaller
> > desktop machines (core2duo).
> >
> > Should I bring the quad-cores with the firewire? They also have audio in,
> > but when using firewire one preferably loops audio through the camera
> > (xrl from the p/a) to avoid syncing issues.
>
> I was thinking of using fluendo (well, flumotion) - so if we could run
> up Ubuntu or similar on them that'd be cool. They got plenty of disk?
From the top of my head, one 80gb disk and one 250gb disk each.
> I was thinking we could do some basic top and tailing on those
From the top of my head, one 80gb disk and one 250gb disk each.
- gmc
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:11:11PM +0100, Chris Roberts wrote:
> On 1 August 2012 20:29, Koen Martens <g...@sonologic.nl> wrote:
> > Any news on this? I have just acquired 5 desktop-tower quad-core machines
> > with firewire and analog video digitizer card, as well as a bunch of smaller
> > desktop machines (core2duo).
> >
> > Should I bring the quad-cores with the firewire? They also have audio in,
> > but when using firewire one preferably loops audio through the camera
> > (xrl from the p/a) to avoid syncing issues.
>
> That would be awesome - I've not got anywhere sourcing such things as
> of yet, so sorting that out would be a load off my mind!
>
> I don't know what we're going to do about cameras - need to find out
> from the AV team what they're doing with regards to video. Most
> likely, consumer grade DV cam (unless someone rocks up with some pro
> cameras, then we have another problem on our hands!). So between
> firewire and analogue frame capture we should be covered.
>
> We need to cover 4 areas, from what I can remember, so 5 would give us
> one to use in the Master Control Room as well? Hope that's not too
> much of an ask in terms of transport....
Np, i can bring the 5. I've got a big car :)
> of yet, so sorting that out would be a load off my mind!
>
> I don't know what we're going to do about cameras - need to find out
> from the AV team what they're doing with regards to video. Most
> likely, consumer grade DV cam (unless someone rocks up with some pro
> cameras, then we have another problem on our hands!). So between
> firewire and analogue frame capture we should be covered.
>
> We need to cover 4 areas, from what I can remember, so 5 would give us
> one to use in the Master Control Room as well? Hope that's not too
> much of an ask in terms of transport....
> I was thinking of using fluendo (well, flumotion) - so if we could run
> up Ubuntu or similar on them that'd be cool. They got plenty of disk?
> I was thinking we could do some basic top and tailing on those
- gmc
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