Recording GNHLUG meetings (was: mythtvfest)

[Bill McGonigle]

On Mar 26, 2007, at 12:08, Ben Scott wrote:

>  If someone with a digital video camera wants to volunteer to record
> the meeting, we can put it online at the GNHLUG website.  Or YouTube,
> for that matter.  This was one of the explicit goals for our new
> Internet server.
>
>  The size of motion video may necessitate heavy compression and/or
> down-scaling (to conserve disk space and/or bandwidth), but see also
> YouTube, above.

I did a recording of Doug McIlroy's presentation to DLSLUG - it  
predated Google Video, so I uploaded it to archive.org.  Both will  
accept large high-ish quality video.  Google Video and YouTube are  
set to merge, as I hear it, so I'm not sure if that means all low- 
quality Flash or not.  Either way, if you can get through the upload  
process on archive.org the hosting is quite good.

The downside to doing a video is that people don't necessarily want  
to see el-crapo video.  I spent too much time adjusting volumes,  
gamma curves, color balances, etc. to get it to be watchable.  Sure,  
if it were properly miced and lighted that wouldn't be such a  
problem.  But it wasn't.  I picked up a wireless mic for future use,  
should the need arise again.  There's about a 3x multiplier on  
runtime to do a decent basic editing job, so it's worth keeping in  
mind.  Passing the token on this task might be useful.

>  Audio-only extracts of a video recording are another possibility.
> As long as the sideshow is separately available, this may be all that
> is needed.  It's not like we need to video tape a sideshow.

Audio is much more affordable to host.  I put an .mp3 of the above  
talk on the dlslug site and it hasn't cost me much in the way of  
traffic.  That's not really a concern on the MV deal, I'm guessing,  
other than we don't want to be bad net neighbors and hog the whole  
non-profit bandwidth allocation at MV.

-Bill

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