[lir-wg] Webcasting Meetings

Hi,

I do also second Stephen's proposal, it's a good idea.

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 12:34:57PM +0100, Matthew J Robinson wrote:
> 	I'd like to lend my support to this proposal. At it's simplest this is a few 
> people with a few web cams and a bit of multicast support from a couple of 
> networks. I'm fairly sure I can get some support from the multicast people on 
> our network.
> 
> Any one definately going that has a webcam and  would be prepared to run a 
> trial? I'll offer what help I can. I admit to knowing little about webcam 
> software but I can route packets ;-)

... on the other hand, I tried this last meeting in Amsterdam, and "just
any Webcam" won't buy it.  The video quality was very poor, and I did not
have any audio.

I have a new web cam now, which has better video at about 100 kbit, but 
for recognizable audio, one would need good microphone equipment, or
maybe (much better) a way to tap into the conference room's audio system.

Most likely we'll have to do the routing over a tunnel into someone's
home network, and distribute the multicast from there, as the RIPE network 
didn't have multicast routing enabled on the last few meetings.  (The 
interesting question is "how many listeners do have multicast?" - maybe
we need to do RealAudio instead).

Also, bandwidth might be a problem as the link is usually already 
saturated without video going on...

I'd be willing to participate in the experiments, though.

Gert Doering
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