[ale] Recording & Distributing ALE meetings (was Re: ALE CENTRAL MTG. for 7:30pm on Thursday, February 17, 2011 CE (reprise))

[arxaaron]

On 2011/02/16, at 15:25 , Ron Frazier wrote:

> 1and1.com offers some shared hosting plans with no bandwidth cap.  
> Also,
> libsyn also offers no bandwidth cap. I'm sure there are others.
>
> Ron

Thanks Ron, but the bandwidth for hosting podcast or download
content isn't  so much the issue, though that is a downstream
consequential consideration.

What I'm talking about is a matter of internet ecology such that
the content packaging is small and efficient to begin with. Quality
content delivery shouldn't require a lot of wasteful resource overhead
at any level, from memory and cpu horsepower to decode the steam
(e.g. fatal flash fat) and heavy network bandwidth to get the stream
broadcast, to encoding and uplink overhead to get live content up
to the servers.

peace
aaron

> On 02/16/2011 01:32 PM, arxaaron wrote:
>> On 2011/02/16, at 11:18 , Preston Boyington wrote:
>>
>>> Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
>>> <snipped>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Additional resources:
>>>> - Slides will be made available for download, as well as a list of
>>>> links to reading material that will cover all of the topics  
>>>> mentioned
>>>> in greater depth.
>>>>
>>> any chance of a podcast of this also?  I really enjoyed the last you
>>> provided.  (know it's time consuming and appreciate what you've  
>>> done)
>>>
>>
>> We did a point to point Skypecast to the SPSU/ALE-NW group in
>> January that worked pretty well.   It was a good proof of concept
>> for the recording and transmission methods.  It also made it clear
>> where the distribution processes need to be streamlined.
>>
>> I feel strongly that anything we do for capture or distribution needs
>> to be transparent to the presenter and run entirely external to
>> whatever system they use to present their slides or media.
>> In addition, it needs to be extremely easy to set up and
>> should require as little post production tweaking as possible.
>> Bandwidth requirements for capture and distribution are also
>> critical, so the lower the bandwidth needs the better.
>>
>> Goozbach (Derek) is presenting at CHUGALUG in Athens for
>> their (third Thursday) meeting this week and I just loaned him my
>> Zoom4 and some microphones for a presentation recording
>> experiment they are running,  We didn't have much time to
>> discuss the details when I handed off the equipment, but it sounds
>> like an approach that would meet the criteria I just outlined above.
>> If the methods work, then this would make podcasting of our
>> meetings practical..
>>
>> On the same note, I've also been contacted this past week by
>> Linux-etc<http://Linux-etc.com>, a Linux training a certification
>> company, about contracting their [FLOSS based] webcast
>> conferencing services.  They have an account set up in my
>> name but I need find time to activate it and test the setup
>> (and I won't have any time for that before March).
>>
>> The Linux-etc offering is a paid service, but the costs are pretty
>> minimal and if we were to arrange to share the expense with
>> associate groups or seek some donations it might be doable.
>> The service could include direct recording at the server for
>> distribution as a podcast, etc.
>>
>> More when we have details from the Athens experiment.
>>
>> peace
>> aaron
>>
>>
>>
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