[IMC-Video] video streaming discussion...

[Echograph]

Dear fellow IMCistas

I'm glad to see the discussion started up again on this. There were 
some good ideas and points made last month from a lot of people.
Is there some one on this list serve with the technical knowledge that 
can sum up how to proceed so we can realize this?

I'm not a techie but what I gather from past discussion is that we can 
do this.
 From what I remember there are there main things to figure out.

1. Connection from the field to the local IMC server.
2. Live feed to the server from the field.
3. Live stream from the server via the web site out to the internet.

For the connection from the field there were two ideas:

1. Video cam or webcam to laptop to open WIFI network in the area to 
server.
2. Cam to laptop to cell phone network to server.

For the reporter in the field: the live feed to local server needs some 
kind of user login page with buttons to click on to start the feed and 
also disk space allocation on the server for the video data.
For streaming: some kind of software like Icecast or a custom Java 
script is needed.
Also a link from the local IMC home page to a live video page where the 
streaming is viewed by the user is needed.

I think a hacklab work session is needed for us to make progress on 
this. I'm in Los Angeles and would be happy to help facilitate some 
kind of regional meet up for IMC collectives who want to work on this.

James
LA-IMC Collective




On Thursday, September 21, 2006, at 06:45  PM, mark burdett wrote:

> speaking of video streaming via icecast,
> if a lot of folks get into it, maybe we could setup a continuous video
> channel.  it could be functionally equivalent to the way we setup
> critical mass radio network, with stream switching handled by the
> icecast server.
>
> (I don't know how well the video players handle size, framerate, etc.
> changing as the video plays -- I know iTunes had trouble with CMRN if 
> we
> switched samplerates.)
>
> --mark
>
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:50:43 -0700, mark burdett wrote:
>> raw dvd video is under 10mbps
>> so certainly you can do compressed video streaming on 11mbps.
>>
>> i think berkman only has 100mbps of bandwidth, so you'd want
>> to make the stream 1mbps or less in order to serve a large
>> number of viewers.
>>
>> --mark B.
>>
>> On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:56:32 -0700, lotu5 wrote:
>>> I think that local hacklabs are awesome projects that can realy help 
>>> to
>>> generate interest and set aside time for tech gatherings that usually
>>> gets neglected. i'm not sure how that scales to intl level beyond the
>>> list that we have here already.
>>>
>>> Last night at our hacklab i explained and demo'ed our ogg theora
>>> streaming setup that we're using next month for the zapaista tour 
>>> stop
>>> in tijuana. simply using the instructions from streaming suitcase.com
>>> and a mont point on radio.indymedia.org worked. on ubuntu we were 
>>> able
>>> to install everthing from packages except from oggfwd, which is a 
>>> really
>>> simple compile. and i'm using ubuntu on an ibook and it works great.
>>>
>>> but, the problem we're still facing is the question of internet 
>>> access.
>>> is wireless fast enough? the ubuntu airport extreme driver only 
>>> supports
>>> 11mbs/sec. prolly not fast enough! also, finding high speed access in
>>> tijuana is proving hard for us. we're probably just going to have to
>>> raise the funds to have a high speed dsl or cable line put into our
>>> venue, and we have about a month to make that happen.
>>>
>>> sweating,
>>>
>>>   lotu5
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 09:34 -0700, Echograph wrote:
>>>> I think we need to form a hacklab to realize all theideas we have.
>>>>
>>>> Where are we with the live streaming discussion?
>>>>
>>>> Also is any on this list in New York and covering the Bush at the UN
>>>> protests?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, September 19, 2006, at 09:15  AM, Sasha Costanza-Chock
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://jumpcut.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, now, we need to develop a FOSS version of this. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm totally serious, this is a MUST
>>>>>
>>>>> schock
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