Re: Looping video for projectors

[Tom Callaway]

They do not. We're having to provide all the av equipment.

On Jul 30, 2015 9:56 AM, Stephen Gallagher  wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 09:50 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Stephen Gallagher < 
> > [e-mail]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 19:55 +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote:
> > > > I had an idea to make up a looping video to have up on the 
> > > > projectors 
> > > > instead of having them blank while people are waiting for talks.
> > > >
> > > > Here is what I came up with:
> > > >
> > > > https://ryanlerch.fedorapeople.org/rochester-just-wavy.webm
> > > >
> > > > The ticket tracking this is here if you have any ideas.
> > > >
> > > > https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/396
> > > >
> > > > I was thinking about working on making it longer, and perhaps 
> > > > running 
> > > > through the sponsors, and maybe other important information, 
> > > > slide 
> > > > -show 
> > > > style but in a video, but will hack at adding that stuff after 
> > > > the 
> > > > other 
> > > > print stuff for flock is done.
> > >
> > > Looks excellent to me, but what will we be using to project this? 
> > > Will 
> > > the rooms have existing desktops or something or will we be 
> > > expecting 
> > > all the presenters to run this while waiting?
> >
> > This is a fair question.
> >
> > Right now, the plan for streaming is a setup like we had in 
> > Charleston 
> > with laptops and webcams (though not actually confirmed yet).  So 
> > there will be machines there, however they likely won't be near the 
> > projectors since they have to be connected to a webcam pointing at 
> > the 
> > screen.
> >
> > Ignoring that issue, I'm a bit skeptical of the practicality of using 
> > those machines to display this in the short break between sessions. 
> > It would mean someone would have to plug the projector back into the 
> > machine, then unplug it to connect to the presenter's machine, then 
> > replug, repeat.  I can see this quickly leading to never plugging 
> > those in.
> >
> > Realistically, whatever machine that is being used to present will 
> > need to run this if we want it.  Which likely means the presenter's 
> > themselves will need to run this, which means it will only be 
> > displayed for a few minutes before each talk.
> >
> > Does someone have a better idea or plan?  I really like the idea and 
> > video itself, but I'm afraid practicality and technical issues are 
> > going to make it somewhat untenable.
>
> Well, can we find out if the podiums at the venue have a machine 
> already there (even if it's Windows or OSX?). We could then just leave 
> that running on said machine and switch the projecter input back to the 
> podium system between talks.