Re: [tlug] [Announcement] TLUG Technical Meeting 2008-01-12 streamcast

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Matt Gross writes:
>  > On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 20:26 +1300, Jim Tittsler wrote:
>  > > On Jan 12, 2008, at 15:30, YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > > Today I'll provide a stream of 320x240 quality.  Maybe you feel the
>  > > > video quality is not good, but it's a (current) limitation of
>  > > > opensource/free codecs.
>  > > 
>  > > Thank you for doing this!  It was fun to "attend" a meeting again.
>  > > 
>  > 
>  > I enjoyed it as well.  Thanks!
>
> Very cool, and 320x240 is fine resolution for the purpose.
>
> Suggestion for the camera: the screen is pretty unreadable at this
> resolution, especially from that oblique angle.  Focus on the speaker
> and/or the audience more.  That's who the overseas folks want to see
> anyway, I bet.  I know I do!

This is a good idea for the future, but as we didn't really give our 
speakers and audience much advanced warning, so sticking to the slides 
was safer this time round.  I though 640x480 would be a nicer resolution 
to broadcast but we may start getting bandwidth problems.

> Speakers could try to post their slides in advance.

I will try and get the speakers to do this for the next meeting.

Edward