Stream Team Planning

List of available gear
  • 1 magic DV repeater VP-314 (Robin)
  • 1 Sony-Z1 – if needed, requires shipping/transport (Robin, IEM)
List of required gear
  • fast PC running Linux (preferably debian/wheezy) with 4 IEE1394 (firewire) ports, and ≥ 500 GB disk-space
  • ≥ 2 cameras - one with XLR audio in
  • sturdy tripods
  • stage lights
  • microphones 1 wireless lapel mic for the speaker, 2 omnis for audience and ambiance
  • audio-mixing desk
  • wired network connection (outgoing live-stream, IRC) + contact-info at network-operations
  • 66ft dv cables 2066
  • BCF2000 (or similar MIDI desk) for controlling dvswitch.
  • obviously table, power-connectors and usual gaffer equipment
Venues
  • one main room for the paper track
  • one or two workshop tracks
  • concert
Infrastructure

dvswitch LAO patched version. Robin points out that network links are not latency-compensated1), so all cams must be hooked to the dvswitch machine directly. For the VGA capture, a netlink would be ok.

Robin has a collection of useful streaming scripts at http://rg42.org/gitweb/?p=lac2011.git;a=tree;f=tools;

1)
a fixed offset can be configured manually, but there are known drift and sync problems.
lac2013/streaming.txt · Last modified: 2012/10/17 13:48 by umlaeute