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StreamTeam planning page

  • Ok, here we go. Initial version — Jörn Nettingsmeier 2010/03/06 12:24
  • Updates after more people have stepped forward to volunteer - this is taking off nicely! — Jörn Nettingsmeier 2010/04/01 14:27
  • please sign up in the table below when you're available for stream-team duties — Jörn Nettingsmeier 2010/04/14 08:55
Timetable

Mark your entries with your initials, and note your check-in (“ab>”) and check-out (“>ab”) times, approximately.

  • Jörn (jn): will come to Utrecht on the 28th and 29th to prepare streaming stuff. Have to return to Essen on Friday for a job, and will show up on Saturday morning in time for the first paper. But it would be cool to know someone else is taking care of that. I'm on call on Friday for remote troubleshooting whenever possible.
Time T - 3d T - 2d T - 1d Saturday 1st Sunday 2nd Monday 3rd Tuesday 4th
10:00
11:00
12:00jn>on-site tests
13:00 jn on call
14:00 for remote ts jn> jn>
15:00 jn>
16:00
17:00
18:00
19:00 >jn
20:00
21:00 >jn >jn >jn
Stream relays
  1. http://streamer.stackingdwarves.net, capped at 70mbit/s, operated by nettings. Status: up
  2. Eric Rzewnicky?
  3. Marc-Olivier Barre?
Gear list

This is the definive gear list. We start with everything in parentheses, which means “needs to be confirmed”. Those who have volunteered to bring the stuff, please remove them and sign.

  • (2 Sony HDR-HC1E) (Robin)
  • (1 Sony Z1) (Robin)
  • (1 Sony FX1) (Herman)
  • (one steadicam outfit - yeeeha!) (Herman)
  • Master DVSwitch machine (quadcore, loads of RAM) - HKU, Emile+Ernst, confirmed
  • DataVideo SE-800 with DV I/O - HKU, Marc
  • (a VGA→DV scan converter) (Herman)
  • (another VGA→DV scan converter) (Marije)
  • (a sturdy tripod) (Herman)
  • (a less sturdy tripod) (faberman)
  • (a tripod of hitherto unbeknownst sturdicity) (Raffaella, until Monday)
  • (a Shuttle PC for off-line encoding) (faberman)
  • one DV and encoding capable notebook for the mobile stream kit — Jörn Nettingsmeier 2010/04/14 11:59
  • a battered old DV cam that may or may not work, with decidedly unsturdy tripod — Jörn Nettingsmeier 2010/04/14 11:59

still missing

  • another sturdy tripod (Wouter? for the entire conference, or just a few days?)
  • a second notebook with Firewire as a dvswitch host
  • a third notebook with Firewire as a dvswitch host
  • a fourth notebook with Firewire as a dvswitch host
  • a small GBit switch for the DV network
  • 3x20m of CAT5e or better for the DV hosts, plus some more CAT5 just in case.
  • headsets or earpieces for the cam operators (if we try and create an intercom link)

Plus we're lacking detailed information about the audio gear in the lecture room at this point. Marc G. is checking it out.

People and what they have offered
  • Robin has offered 1-4 hd cams, needs help in getting them to Utrecht. available are:
    • 3 Sony HDR-HC1E
    • 1 Sony HVR-Z1

The current plan is that we actually only need 2 camcorders and to use two identical ones: HDS-HC1E. The bag includes two batteries each, remote-control and power-supply. They can do either a DV S-Video out or 4pin iLink/Firewire. One of the bags includes a DV-repeater (6pin Firewire to 6pin Firewire) that allows to use long Firewire extension cables.

  • Marc-Olivier has signed up to the stream team - yay! Can offer a dedicated 100mbit/s server. – Marc won't be able to attend LAC2010
  • Eric will check with DebConf folks to see if anybody is interested to join our team and ask if we can use their vga→dv converter. He is also offering another relay server.
  • Jörn is volunteering to coordinate the streaming, but would very much like to limit his ops duty to 1/3 of all talks. Will bring a streaming-ready notebook plus a cheap dv cam.
  • A friendly guy called Christian has volunteered to help part-time with the stream team (friend of Frank Neumann's). Jörn is in touch…
  • Herman Robak (who's been on the 2008 stream team) can bring a remote pan/tilt head and a Sony HDR-FX1 (almost identical to HVR-Z1, good controls and low light performance). Herman has used dvswitch before. Brings a VGA to DV scan converter. Has a sturdy tripod and some microphones, too.
  • Utrecht-based film maker Wouter Verwijlen will be at the LAC and has offered to help with the stream team at least one day (lots of previous streaming experience). Can arrange a tripod.
  • Film maker and Lumiera user Raffaella Traniello will come to LAC all the way from Italy and has offered a tripod (at least until Monday)!
  • Marc G. has secured a hardware DV mixer for us. It's a DataVideo SE-800, which would solve pretty much all of our mixing problems if it has the DV options in - still need to figure that out. That doesn't mean we can't try dvswitch (Jörn would love to). It just means we're not screwed if it doesn't work in the end.
  • faberman brings one of his Shuttles for offline encoding or where needed.
  • HKU provides a spiffy Dell quad-core dvswitch master.
Things to do:
  • check lighting options - marc g?
    • Get pictures or building plans of the venue, to give the crew something to plan for.
  • check audio gear in lecture room
  • check video gear and available tie-lines in the lecture room
  • check availability of YUV or FBAS and audio cables (or tie-lines) in the lecture room
Done
  • guidelines for presenters, depends on our gear:

* if we have cheap cams and shoddy lighting, light letters on dark background to prevent the cam from saturating

  • if we have good cams, good lighting and a mixer, dark letters on light background, better for overlays

(Robin has told Frank N.)

  • reserve and announce #lac2010 IRC channel on freenode.net
  • check what projection gear will be available and how to tap into it (Herman has a VGA-DV encoder.)
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