[IMC-Video] [sdhacklab] la indymedia needs video help with live video streaming

[lotu5]

Sounds awesome. 

Can you reply to the questions below? What kind of laptop will you be
using? What kind of camera would you like to use?

  lotu5

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 12:26 -0700, Echograph wrote:
> Hello form James at LA-IMC
> 
> Basically this is what we are trying to do:
> 
> We want to stream video on the IMC site live from the street. We 
> believe this is possible without having a satellite and all the stuff 
> TV news crews have. Our idea is to use a webcam into a laptop and WIFI 
> leach to our server and then stream live out to the world. We think we 
> have the equipment to do this but we need to find out what to set up 
> software wise on our server. We think any IMC should be able to do this 
> at very low cost.  So we are asking around for technical advice.
> 
> We think this would take IMC to a whole new level and provide valuable 
> up to the minute news from the street. IMC has people in the field 
> where news breaks at protests and the corporate media is either not 
> there or spins the story wrong.  We think inexpensive technology exists 
> that would allow us to go live and scoop them all.  Sometimes people 
> chant "the whole world is watching" but sadly I don't think that's 
> always true, (yet). We want to show the world what's really happening 
> in the streets and nothing conveys that like live video.
> 
> James
> 
> On Friday, August 11, 2006, at 11:43  AM, Rachel MacCratic wrote:
> 
> > Hello, SDIMC is also working on a simulcast, too, one that's 
> > reaching across the border; so far I've been introduced to this: 
> > www.videolan.org It'll run on windows, OS X, or Linux, of course.  One 
> > machine functions as a server while a multiplicity of clients watch 
> > from other spots.  I haven't actually done this, yet, but the 
> > preceding is my conceptual understanding.
> >
> > On 8/10/06, lotu5 at resist.ca <lotu5 at resist.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Hi. What platform are you using? Mac/pc? Windows/linux/macos?
> >
> > In linux you can try using freej:
> >
> > http://freej.dyne.org/
> >
> > if you have a pc handy, you should be able to use a live cd like 
> > dynebolic
> > or ubuntu and run freej from there.
> >
> > reply to me with more inf and i'll try to help...
> >
> > lotu5
> > http://sdhacklab.org
> >
> >
> > > ----- Forwarded message from Echograph <echograph at echograph.com> 
> > -----
> > >
> > > From: Echograph <echograph at echograph.com>
> > > To: Editorial Working Group for IMC-US
> > > <imc-us-editorial at lists.indymedia.org >
> > > Subject: Re: [Imc-us-editorial] Take Back The South Central Farm
> > >
> > > There are many who think its over and I think the enemy wants people 
> > to
> > > think that. But the fight is still on I can tell you. And if the
> > > bulldozers come back there will be more resistance, more arrests and
> > > more outrage.
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > Before the raid we were working on how to stream live video via 
> > webcam
> > > from the farm, but did not figure it out in time.  We still want to 
> > be
> > > able to do this.  Do you know any one that can help us with this?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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