Hey,
I assumed there was an audio shoutcast for wineconf this year until I noticed this morning I had been reading the archives of 2004. I know, now this might be a bit too late to arrange. But let's try.
I have the experience in setting up an audio stream and the general knowledge about audio. But I do not have much portable equipment I can take with me at wineconf. I would mainly be needing a laptop with a _proper_ soundcard and a server doing the actual streaming.
What kind of sound system does the conference room have? Do we know specifics? If there is nothing available I can arrange some equipment. If there is equipment available our biggest problem will be getting the signal at the poor 3,5mm jack line-in connections of the laptop.
The laptop would need a distro (duh) with basically just ALSA. And a soundcard that can do hardware mixing (multiple local playback streams at once).
You can have nice sound at 56kbit/s mp3. So somewhere around a 5mbit connection should be enough for 100 listeners at the stream server (you don't want to do that on the laptop, connections eat memory).
What do you all think? Paul
What do you all think?
You can see what happened last year with streaming audio: http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-devel/2004/02/0044.html
I remain convinced that it's not worth the trouble; and that people are really only interested in it because "it's cool"; imho, if people want to hear the discussion at Wineconf, they should come.
But if somebody wants to devote a laptop to being a streaming device, and someone wants to set up a streaming server, I don't think anyone would mind having an extra mic on the speakers podium.
Just don't ask for my help; you don't want your system ifconfig downed <grin>
Cheers,
Jer
Hi,
On Freitag 22 April 2005 19:05, Paul van Schayck wrote:
I assumed there was an audio shoutcast for wineconf this year until I noticed this morning I had been reading the archives of 2004. I know, now this might be a bit too late to arrange. But let's try.
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You can have nice sound at 56kbit/s mp3. So somewhere around a 5mbit connection should be enough for 100 listeners at the stream server (you don't want to do that on the laptop, connections eat memory).
What do you think about just recording, and putting those files online sometime later, thus creating an audio archive of the talks? That would need less equipment (no extra streaming server) and work for setting it up.
Personally, I'd prefer a non-streaming solution. As these audio files probably won't attract as many downloads as the Clinton Report[tm], I'd also volunteer to donate a few Gig of traffic and webspace to host at least a major part of them. However I'm saying that without a good idea of how much data we're talking about ;) I guess it would be about 10h of compressed audio, which would be around 500 MB?
Cheers,
David
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:55:18PM +0200, David Gümbel wrote:
What do you think about just recording, and putting those files online sometime later, thus creating an audio archive of the talks? That would need less equipment (no extra streaming server) and work for setting it up.
Personally, I'd prefer a non-streaming solution. As these audio files probably won't attract as many downloads as the Clinton Report[tm], I'd also volunteer to donate a few Gig of traffic and webspace to host at least a major part of them. However I'm saying that without a good idea of how much data we're talking about ;) I guess it would be about 10h of compressed audio, which would be around 500 MB?
Don't worry about that part too much, we can also easily store them on our HUGE FHT Esslingen server (the Wine CVS mirror server and the one that I'm writing this mail from), and that one has resources for the next 20 years or so ;-)
Andreas Mohr
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