[SGVLUG] Re: November SGVLUG Talk

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On Nov 5, 2007 3:03 PM, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- Of Michael Proctor-Smith
>
> > [...] When I has video taping the meeting I would ask the
> > speaker and one ever had a problem. I stopped video taping
> > the meeting because it was more trouble then I wanted to go
> > through and I did not have the time to transcode and upload
> > them afterwords so I ended up with tapes and or files that
> > never went anywhere.
>
> I agree wholeheartedly -- "doing a video" might be great fun once in a
> while, but as soon as it becomes "a job that must be done", all the fun
> drains out of it...  [yes, speaking from experience here...]
>
> Now, having said that, I noticed at the SOCALWUG meetings that Frank has
> a system that streams the meeting "live" as it captures it, which cuts
> out the whole after-the-fact portion of the labor (i.e., the "boring"
> part)  I think you've tried to accomplish the same thing with your
> laptop, but ran into problems now and then.
>
Well that is what I started doing but then the software stack broke
and there were issues with kernel/firewire/gstreamer/fumotion combo
worked great the first time then kernel changes would not match
gstreamer changes and then it just never worked.