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Streaming last nights LILUG meeting (see last post) did not go as well as I had hoped for it to go. I guess the main problem was that I had never actually tried it on my laptop - so there was not a trace of gstreamer on the whole dang system… I ended up even having to compile gst-entrans to get it working. I had a nice placeholder looping intro video (a rickroll with some overlayed text) that lasted for most of the meeting streaming from my desktop computer. My laptop wasn’t powerful enough to encode the video in real time at the quality I had it set to, by the time I thought to lower the settings it was already the end of the meeting. The stream at the end of the meeting (of people just sitting and talking) apparently worked very well, varied from 60-100kbit (I believe, according to vlc) and was quite watchable. Next time I’ll borrow someone elses laptop (configured before!) probably, and use that to stream it.. Next meeting should go better. =]

Okay, I’m going to be using gstreamer and icecast to stream an OGG/Theora stream of today’s LILUG Presentation to the internet. There is a chance it will not work, or will not work immediately. If bandwidth is not enough to stream OGG/Theora (with vorbis audio), I will go to just OGG/Vorbis for audio-only. I have 3 webcams, each with an internal mic, my lappys internal mic, and an external mic I’ll be bringing with me - I never got around to testing it on my laptop so I’m just bringing everything I have.

I recommend using VLC or Totem to view it, mplayer can view it with a low cache set, but I think VLC and Totem work better. There is also a Java-Based Viewer that works very well.

Hope you watch.

Here is the stream URL:
http://tonybox.net:8000/lilug.ogg

And the Java viewer URL:
http://tonybox.net/~tonyb/video/lilug.html

That was a very interesting meeting, John Palmieri came and spoke about the OLPC project’s XO laptop and its Sugar interface, and also brought one along to show us.

I have some pictures that I took at the meeting posted up.

http://pics.tonybox.net/v/Lilug-05-08-07/