Hi, not cc: to the video list, as all are subscribed to here as well. On Friday 10 June 2005 15:22, Holger Levsen wrote: > I didn't remember whether we'll get a two or four cpu machine from intel > (x86?) - Andreas, can you please comment on this ?! Is this the same > machine as the one that holds the big storage capacity ? Or is this another > machine ? Intel also lends three Toshiba Satelite notebooks with firewire > to us. These machines will be available from july 1st til the end ? That situation is still somewhat unclear, but has cleared a bit, see http://layer-acht.org/fai/fai-at-debconf5 (the table at the bottom) > According to the wiki we'll have a dedicated video room located in the > basement of one of the dorm buildings. Is this sensible or would the smökki > be a better place ? still unresolved > Where will the storage server be located ? > Where will the gigabit switch be located ? > Do we have a dedicated (for video, not for debconf as well) 100mbit > connection between the CSD/auditoriums and that dorm building ? > Do we have a dedicated (for video, not for debconf as well) 100mbit > connection between the CSD/auditoriums and smökki ? still unresolved > How's the audio/mic situation in the small auditorium ? no audio room, but mics with 6.3mm connectors... > What kind of audio connectors are used in the main auditorium (and in the > small, if there are any...) ? see above > Currently we don't have a hardware audio mixer - which would greatly help > us with audio quality. Does anybody have one and can lend us ? Don't we > need two, one for the big and one for the small auditorium ? mooch will lend us his "small mixer" > We haven't finally settled on the codecs we'll use yet. Most likely we'll > provide theora and mpeg1 video files/streams and ogg vorbis audio > files/streams. mpeg1 is around 200mb/hour. > > Also we haven't finally settled on the video tool we use, it will be either > flumotion or ffmpeg. still to decide > "The big fat pipe" which will serve the videos to the outside world will be > located on the HUTs student network. That's all we know about that > currently :-( How will we have access to it, how is it connected to our > network, how be able to transfer the files/streams to that machine ? > We would like to use it to serve (big) files, stream the streams and seed > the bittorents from it as well. still unresolved > For bittorents we'll also need a machine acting as a tracker for the > torrent files - me thinks it would be best to use another machine for it, > one that is permanently (i.e. also after debconf) under our control. What > do you think ? still unresolved > regards, > Holger
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