Alright, here is the deal on the classrooms. They have presentation kiosks but do not have web cams for recording. They haven't gotten the latest technology upgrade like what Garrett mentioned. They all do have Windows machines with dedicated LAN lines and we can use the USB ports on them if we want to hook cameras up to them and use them as a point to stream from. That can be set up the night before in the IT walkthrough.


On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch <ilan@fonz.net> wrote:
Hi Wilbur,

Lets connect on IRC at some point and I'd be happy to get a test
environment setup.

Ilan

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Wilbur K Smith <wilbur.k.smith@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I have not live-streamed video from it, but I have a Canon 7D SLR than can
> do 1080p and I can bring it along to help out. Most of the mid-level DSLRs
> on the market can output through a standard HDMI or Mini-HDMI port, so it
> may be easy to borrow a few from others. I've worked with VLC for streaming,
> but this was for multicast projects.I'll need to play with it and come up
> with a good config; I'll take a look at this over the holiday. The key
> question will be what formats Ooyala servers in can can handle.
>
> If anyone has a link to Ooyala's technical info and support, I'll put some
> time into this and see what I can come up with.
>
> Happy to help,
> Wilbur
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Ruth Suehle <rsuehle@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ooyala is going to help us with streaming Flock sessions. We just need
>> equipment. "Just." I'm trying to stretch budgets from everywhere just to get
>> all of Flock happening, so there's not a lot leftover for buying camera
>> equipment! Possibly some, but I don't think I can swing enough for nine
>> rooms.
>>
>> Thus, two questions:
>>
>> - Can anyone suggest reasonably inexpensive cameras I should look at
>> purchasing? Whatever is the least expensive that isn't going to be so low
>> quality, it's useless.
>>
>> - Does anyone have a video camera suitable that you'd be willing to lend
>> to the cause? We'd have it set up in the rooms all day, but of course you're
>> welcome to take it back to your hotel for safekeeping at night.
>>
>> Here's the information from Ooyala about how we can do the streaming.
>> There are two options:
>>
>> 1) Hook up a camera to a computer running a software encoder via USB
>> or Firewire.  Many of our customers use Flash Media Live Encoder,
>> which is not open source.  VLC might be an open source option here as
>> well, but I haven't personally used it in this setup.
>>
>> 2) Use a hardware encoder such as a Terradeck cube
>> (http://www.teradek.com/pages/cube). These can take input from SDI or
>> HDMI output on any camera and then re-encode them to push to a
>> streaming server at whichever provider you select.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know whether VLC or something else is an option for #1? I
>> think the Teradek is prohibitively expensive, especially if we also have to
>> buy cameras.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Ruth
>>
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