[Noisebridge-discuss] streaming video, teleconferencing and more

[Christie Dudley]

You can get it set up as multi-point?  Everyone I know who has tried has
given up.  If there's something I'm missing, I'd be interested to hear it.

Security issues were reported at Black Hat Europe in 2006:
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-europe-06/bh-eu-06-biondi/bh-eu-06-biondi-up.pdf
I know there are other discussions as well.

Christie

--
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total
obliteration.
- Bene Gesserit Litany


On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Praveen Sinha <dmhomee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well ideally, to me, what I'd want is some sort of multiplexible video
> conferencing thing, which I think skype has, but there may be some other
> apps out there as well (thinking about client side ease of us as well as
> ours) -- I hate closed protocols too, but what are some of the security
> issues with skype?
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I am opposed to using Skype for a number of reasons, not the least of
>> which includes it being a closed protocol.  I just can't get behind
>> something that has had so many security issues, whether it effects us or
>> not.
>>
>> I will agree that Skype is easy to set up, but it's only available as a
>> point-to-point connection, which prevents it from serving the purpose we're
>> looking to fulfill here.  If a single person can't participate, it's great.
>> If even 2 can't, it fails.  Same goes for the user-panned webcam.
>>
>> For more participatory events, it would be nice to have a fish-eye.  I
>> think a 360 one would be too much and probably make the viewer nauseous.
>> Besides, people who don't want to be seen online should have somewhere to
>> participate too.
>>
>> Christie
>>
>> --
>> Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total
>> obliteration.
>> - Bene Gesserit Litany
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Josh Myer <josh at joshisanerd.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:29:51PM -0700, Praveen Sinha wrote:
>>> > So my next questions to you all -- noisebridge is starting to produce
>>> some
>>> > really cool sounding sessions and I can only make a small percentage of
>>> > stuff I'd like to be involved in.  I don't have a lot of video
>>> experience,
>>> > but:
>>> >
>>> > 1) Anyone have any suggestions/designs for some sort of rig we could
>>> use to
>>> > capture video/audio of events, for the purpose of streaming online?
>>> >
>>>
>>> I actually have the dorkbot camera guy's contact info for just this
>>> question.  I'll drop him an email this evening asking for
>>> recommendations (I don't believe he's on the list).
>>>
>>> > 2) I think it would be amazing to be able to videoconference with other
>>> > hackerspaces (or whomever) on the wall...  With the projector, and
>>> skype,
>>> > this could be really straightforward... But are there better
>>> approaches?  My
>>> > employer, for example, has a room called "Virtual Isabel", where the
>>> room is
>>> > replicated in second life, and people in the physical room talk with
>>> the
>>> > avatars in the virtual room, and the virtual room sees a live stream of
>>> the
>>> > physical room...
>>> >
>>>
>>> I like the idea of having a better telepresence setup, though not
>>> anything nearly as advanced as what you've got at work.  Also, I don't
>>> currently have, and would rather not create, a SL account (call me
>>> closed-minded and old-fashioned if you must, but, well, it's apt).
>>>
>>> (IIRC, you and I had chatted about this for ML talks back at the
>>> beginning of those, as far back as December.  I'd love to see us push
>>> through it now, but haven't wanted to step into it myself just yet.)
>>> --
>>> Josh Myer   650.248.3796
>>>  josh at joshisanerd.com
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>>
>>
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