Re: [Debconf-team] Website to watch streaming of the DebConf14

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric@zhevny.com>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 08:56:36PM -0400, Carl Karsten wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric@zhevny.com>
> wrote:
>     > It's probably worth mentioning that Summit, which we're using this year,
>     has
>     > built-in support for linking IRC channels and video in-line in the page
>     for
>     > each session.
> 
>     To be clear, do you mean the icecast_url field in summit.schedule.Room ?

My question was to Steve wrt "Summit ... has built-in support ...
in-line". All I've seen so far in Summit is a field to put a URL
in. 

Nonetheless, your answer is interesting.

> No.
> 
> It is yet another code base.  It is both streaming server and django website to
> build a central page of streams that shows images taken from each  stream every
> 5 seconds.  Plus a bunch of other features like js irc chat on the same page. 
> 
> >> You can  find the source in https://github.com/timvideos.
> 
> http://timvideos.us/ ; is an instance of it.  Currently there is no event
> streaming, and because it dynamicaly builds the main page based on the talk
> schedule, it doesn't look like much.
> 
> If someone wants to make it better let me know and I'll document out how to
> bring up a dev instance with dummy streams.
> 
> 
> 
>     from what I've found so far that just displays a link to some external
>     place to view the live stream. Valessio is talking about making a nice
>     looking page that we could link to from there. It will make it easy for
>     viewers to watch directly in their browsers and provide other nice
>     stuff. I haven't yet found that kind of functionality in summit. If you
>     have, please point me at it.
> 
>     > If there are tools other than those currently in place which
>     > you would like us to use, perhaps you can do that integration in Summit,
>     so
>     > we don't accidentally end up with multiple pages with different IRC/video
>     > views?
>     >
>     >   https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Summit
> 
>     I'm getting decently comfortable with the summit code. So, I can likely
>     help if we decide to integrate Valessio's work directly into summit.
>     Just pointing to his creation from the schedule is probably sufficient,
>     though, and less work.
> 
>     -edrz

-edrz