[ok-edinburgh] UStream

[stuart macdonald]

Hi Nicola - this all sounds grand. I'm looking forward to seeing the 
quality of the resultant footage (live or otherwise)! I suppose it begs 
the question as to whether we want to advertise the live stream 
somewhere on the wiki?

cheers
Stuart

On 12/05/2010 12:54, Nicola Osborne wrote:
> 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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