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Any folks interested in improving the quality and formats available for the webcast of meetings? What is the best way to fund such an effort - a specific fundraising drive, additional sponsor slot, ping the community for donations, etc? The streams for RIPE, UKNOF, & LINX seem to be of high quality, I'm told they typically use 3 chip DV cameras. Originally I was frustrating by the lack of available formats that merit/I2 make available; RealMedia has been taking a slow death in the mainstream space for some time, with H264 & WMV9 being the popular kids on the block these days (or FLV to be web 2.0 compliant). Regardless, I think we can all appreciate the efforts that is put into archiving both the slides and video presentations, thanks merit & i2! Supporting additional formats is easy (ie: cluster of mini's, mencoder/ffmpeg one-liners, etc), improving the original source appears to be problem w/ the current setup. Just as Anton Kapela has stepped up to vastly improve the WiFi at meetings, I'd like to help improve the webcasts. Unfortuantly, while tkap was presented with quality WiFi gear (cisco enterprise non- linksys), the existing video setup is not so modern. An investment of ~$10k would yield a number of 2nd hand DV cameras, firewire repeaters, a few macbooks and associated accessories. Also using wirecast <http://www.varasoftware.com/products/wirecast/> w/ their "Desktop Presenter" add-on would vastly improve the current VGA to long-run-ole-Svideo setup; another trick of the LINX streams - this would require some speaker coordination though. I'll be @ NOG40 and would be more then happy to discuss in more detail. --Matt Peterson
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