[ok-edinburgh] UStream

[Nicola Osborne]

So, I am confident about the live streaming working - I have tested it 
from my phone and it seems to work well, it should work even better in a 
space with microphones in use based on a stream I am currently watching 
of EIE 10. I will bring my phone along tomorrow along with my laptop so 
that both can be plugged in and remaind active through the day 
(apparently I can easily make a stand for my phone using a business card 
- the Instructables is marvellous ;)

I should be able to add a link to the OKScotland wiki/tweet info for the 
streaming once set up at the venue tomorrow (it will likely be here: 
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/open-knowledge-scotland). If it works, 
fab, if not then the Flip footage will allow a much higher quality 
version to be shared after the event. Hopefully both will work and so we 
can offer both live and recorded video.

Tweets for the event are being stashed on TwapperKeeper: 
http://twapperkeeper.com/hashtag/okscotland and can thus be retrieved 
and analysed later. We can also add a widget for tweets that can be 
embedded on a webpage but I can't see an effective way to do this on the 
OKScotland wiki right now. If there are any good suggestions of a page 
to add streaming, recorded or twitter content that would be ace. 
Otherwise the Tweets are viewable on the UStream page so that should 
work during the event.

- Nicola.



Jo Walsh wrote:
> Nicola, thanks for this.
>
> On 30/04/2010 17:44, Nicola Osborne wrote:
>> Have seen this used fairly successfully before although I think it can
>> handle only a certain amount of traffic before it gets a little
>> crotchity (but I was watching an Apple launch so it likely had a
>> slightly larger audience than OK Scotland.
>>
>> I haven't tested it but would be very happy to try it out. Is there a
>> suitable camera available for use? I would worry about power for an
>> event of that length on anything I have at home (all primary stills
>> cameras) but I certainly have a tripod we could use and we could do an
>> initial test with a mac built-in camera or my regular digital camera
>> (which does short burst of video as needed).
>
> I have a flip cam with tripod that will do a couple of hours of video 
> then needs downloaded and deleted, hopefully that can capture th core 
> of the action (but no good for live streaming - is that important tho?)
>
> cheers,
>
>
> jo
>


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