[nylug-talk] [tech-geeks] HELP: Broadcasting Lectures with VoIP (fwd)

[Eric]

Jay Sulzberger wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>   Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:40:24 -0500
>   From: Joel Brondos <jbrondos at gmail.com>
>   Reply-To: tech-geeks at tech-geeks.org
>   To: tech-geeks at tech-geeks.org
>   Subject: [tech-geeks] HELP: Broadcasting Lectures with VoIP
> 
>   On June 25, I want to be able to broadcast a classroom presentation LIVE
>   over the internet: audio and video. I would like to have anyone who is
>   interested to be able to access it, BUT . . .
> 
>   MS LiveCast and Adobe Connect solutions are WAAAY too expensive for my
>   modest and meager endeavor.
> 
>   Are there any open-source or low-cost alternatives / workarounds? Would an
>   attempt with a dedicated server running over our freebie COMCAST cable
>   connection ever be able to handle such a thing for, say, 200 participants?
> 
>   And if BOTH video and audio are not possible, is it possible to do with ONLY
>   AUDIO?
> 
>   I'd sure appreciate any suggestions.
> 
>   Joel Brondos (jbrondos at gmail.com)
>   St. Paul's Lutheran School
>   Brookfield, IL
> 
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You could save a lot of hassle by getting a cheap standalone webcam
(less than $200 for sure and probably less than 150) and just put it in
a DMZ or port foward requests to it from your router.. then you could
just have whoever wants to access it go to your external IP and watch
from the web interface.. no client required (Except a web browser).

Other more complex methods would include setting up some kind of
streaming media server.

Voip was mentioned in the subject.  Asterisk in particular can handle
h.264 for video over IP and you could use a video phone grandstream
GXV-3000) .. but you are opening a can of worms that you dont need to
for this problem by getting into VoIP.

I really think the cheap standalone webcam/server is going to be the
simplest solution for you.

-Eric