[IMC-Video] [Fwd: Re: question re: mobile live streaming]

[Sasha Costanza-Chock]

More on the mobile streaming thread... see my questions and francois 
bar's response below.

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Subject: Re: question re: mobile live streaming
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:57:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Francois Bar <fbar AT usc.edu>
To: Sasha Costanza-Chock <costanza AT usc.edu>
CC: Steve Anderson <sanderson AT annenberg.edu>

I guess one question is whether the camera needs to move along with
the march or not (if yes, that rules out wifi)

Another is how 'live' does it need to be -- would be much easier to
capture video, then shuttle the tape/memory card every 10 minutes to a
plugged-in computer for upload.  You could probably manage to do that with
a smallish delay (<1hour)

One good resource would be the wifi guy who came to our Netpublics
conference, who had a backpack w/ a wifi AP hooked to a cell data card
(GPRS/EDGE, I think, which works in dwntn LA.  HSPDA is not here yet.)
That's probably not enough bw, but you could imux 2 or more cards
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_multiplexing.) He is Mike
Outmesguine (mo at wifi-toys.com), author of "wifi toys"
(http://www.wifi-toys.com/), and a local

You may also want to chat with Johanna Blakley <blakley AT usc.edu> at the
Lear center, who recently went through the same exercize to broadcast the
Grand Ave workshop downtown. They ended up using a directional wifi
antenna pointing at a (friendly) office in city hall.  She had to rule out
the other solutions you mentioned, I think.

--François


On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Sasha Costanza-Chock wrote:

> Hi Steve and Francois,
>
> So there is going to be a big march for immigrant rights in LA on Labor
> Day, and there is a conversation happening on indymedia video list about
> different options for doing a live stream of the event. I wanted to pick
> your brains about this...
>
> Option 1: camera->laptop->wifi card->[with (c)antenna]->locate and
> connect to a free access point.
>
> Benefits: cheap.
>
> Drawbacks: Lots of stuff to carry around. not guaranteed connection at
> all, let alone connection strong enough to stream video.
>
>
> Option 2: camera->laptop->wibro card & service
>
> Benefits: guaranteed (well, much more likely) access fast enough to
> stream video.
>
> Drawbacks: still carrying laptop around. and expensive access. Do you
> know what the best service available is?
>
>
> Option 3: mobile phone w/camera & connection fast enough to stream video
>
> Benefits: simple
> Drawbacks: Is there such service existing in LA? Who offers it and how
> much does it cost? Need to purchase expensive phone and probably
> expensive year long connection contract.
>
>
> Is there an Option 4? Some other new mobile media device and service?
> Some interesting hack for phones?
>
>
> sasha
>