TeleMeetings was, [Fwd: GNHLUG.Organizational - Automated notification of topic changes]

[Bill McGonigle]

On Oct 6, 2007, at 07:49, Ted Roche wrote:

> Anyone with actual field experience to share?
>
> - recording live meetings
> - broadcasting live meetings
> - post-broadcasting ("podcasting") audio

The limit of my LUG podcasting experience was with the Doug McIlroy  
talk at DLSLUG.  Things I learned:

*  Input is King.  We're used to good video quality and the mic on a  
camcorder with an amateur operator and poor lighting gives you  
something that no amount of anti-shake post-processing and gamma  
adjustment can really make great.  I bought a wireless lapel mic in  
case we ever try that again (so far I've only used it for recording  
peepers at the pond).  I'd also record directly to computer with Mic  
in and firewire DV in rather than to tape.
*  Editing takes about 3-5x the runtime
*  So does encoding
*  So does uploading, if you have a residential service
*  So does burning and printing a stack of DVD's
*  After spending 10 hours editing a video and uploading it to  
archive.org only 5 people actually watched it based on the  
announcement to the gnhlug membership.  And this was for a big-name  
speaker.  However, today archive.org says it's been downloaded 260  
times, going on two years.  It's been a while since I last checked,  
but I think it was downloaded something like 40 times in the first  
year, and so like 220 times this year.  That might mean the world is  
now ready for Internet video.

For another group I once did a live stream using the Darwin Streaming  
Server (open source) running on a Mac using Quicktime for capture  
(proprietary).  That seems to scale pretty well for small numbers of  
users (< a dozen in my case).

-Bill


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