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

[Echograph]

We can have a MAC G4 power book and a PC laptop. For the MAC we have 
the iSight camera.
For the PC we would need to buy a camera.


On Friday, August 11, 2006, at 12:14  AM, lotu5 wrote:

> 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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