[lir-wg] Webcasting Meetings

Although I generally think it's a good idea, I am also sharing Gerts 
concerns about the bandwidth...I am not completly convinced that I would 
like to sacrify meeting bandwidth for the streaming...

- kurtis -


--On Monday, August 05, 2002 23:26:24 +0200 Pim van Pelt <pim at bit.nl> wrote:

> Hi gents,
>
> I'm sure I could distribute the RIPE video from our AS. We are at AMS-IX
> and generally have fine connectivity to the RIPE-NCC networks.
>
> This is a good proposal/idea and I would like to support it from the IP
> point of view.
>
> I agree with Gert that a realvideo stream might be better. I myself
> would be interrested in the (foreign) meetings which I do not attend,
> but am quite clueless with the (multicast && unix) combo.
>
> In principal, the meetings should be able to be sent into the Internet
> if somebody takes some hardware along with them.
>
> groet,
> Pim
>
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:06:07PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
>| 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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