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

[Ah Pook]

On Thursday 05 April 2007 11:48 am, Marco Romeny wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Ah Pook <ahpook at verizon.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 April 2007 5:52 pm, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > >   Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 13:40:24 -0500
> > >   From: Joel Brondos <jbrondos at gmail.com>
> > >   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?
> >
> > Flumotion.
>
> The software yes, but if we are talking of streaming video over the
> internet to many people live, the bandwidth is the main issue.

Sure.  I don't know any way around that though, OSS or otherwise.  Good, 
accessible streaming video/audio has some requirements, and if they're 
not met, you might as well not even bother.  It's almost all-or-nothing 
in that regard.  Choppy video sucks, and doesn't impress anyone.

> Anyone know if one can do a semi-live vodcast?  So that you can push
> a playlist with chapters that are not yet produced -- and while users
> watch a chapter on coral cdn the last chapter is uploaded to a server
> for further caching? Man, that was a long rambling list, but maybe it
> makes sense...

Makes sense, but that's pretty clunky.  Might as well just do the whole 
thing at once after the fact.

Anyway, OP should read 
http://wingolog.org/archives/2006/07/07/so-you-want-to-stream-a-conference .  
Pretty good writeup.