[activities] Re: Experimental Live video streaming from SLUG tomorrow!

Couple of tips,

The system supports HTML5 (H264, Ogg Theora and WebM) and Flash streaming,
this should cover most desktop browsers. The system *does not* support
mobile systems yet (which includes the iPad), it might work, but it's more
likely it won't.

If you are having problems viewing the video, please try the following
things and send me a report.

   - Try switching to the SD stream. You can do this two ways, one by
   clicking the HD button in the corner twice, or by going to
   http://tims-video.appspot.com/slug?hdoff=True
   - Try switching to the Flash stream. You can do this by going to
   http://tims-video.appspot.com/slug?flashonly=True
   - Try switching to both the Flash SD stream. You can do this by going to
   http://tims-video.appspot.com/slug?flashonly=True&hdoff=True

If the stream freezes at any time, please try and reload.

If you have other problems like the sound being quiet or the display being
wrong in anyway, or if you can't get the stream to work, *please send me an
email* with the following details;

   - Browser Type (Chrome, Safari, IE, etc)
   - Exact Browser Version (a screenshot of the about page would be
   awesome!)
   - Operating System - as much detail as possible (IE Ubuntu Lucid 64bit)
   - The speed and type of Internet connection you have. (IE ADSL, Cable,
   ADSL2 and 256k, 6M). You can find this information in your ADSL model.
   - Please go to  http://www.speedtest.net/ and send me the numbers the
   widget reports.
   - Anything else you think is important.

Thanks

Tim

On 26 May 2011 10:01, Tim Ansell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm currently trying to set up live video streaming for events held at
> Google like FP-Syd, SLUG and SyPy. Tomorrow at SLUG we are going to try a
> second round of testing. There is no guarantee that it will work at all, so
> please don't rely on the stream but if your bored and want to help out,
> please do join in!
>
> If you would like to participate in the trial, please go to the following
> URL from 6pm onwards;
>   http://tims-video.appspot.com/slug
>
> As a backup the following JustinTV channel should also be transmitting the
> same stream, please use the primary video channel to help with testing.
>   http://www.justin.tv/mithro1
>
> The system has twitter and IRC integration, so tweet with the #sydlug<http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23sydlug>hashtag, and join the
> irc://irc.freenode.org/#slug IRC channel.
>
> Tim 'mithro' Ansell
>

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