Videos of Ruby Conference

[Carl Youngblood]

Is anyone going to be filming rubycon? I would really like to watch
some of the presentations. Furthermore, does anyone have enough spare
bandwidth that they might be able to host these videos in some
decently compressed format?

 

[Lothar Scholz]

Hello Carl,

CY> Furthermore, does anyone have enough spare
CY> bandwidth that they might be able to host these videos in some
CY> decently compressed format?

P2P ?

 

[David Ross]

Hello Carl,

CY> Furthermore, does anyone have enough spare
CY> bandwidth that they might be able to host these
videos in some
CY> decently compressed format?

P2P ?

I would laugh if the videos were taken by the RubyConf
team and they were for sale ending up on p2p.

Just a thought that popped in my head when you
mentioned p2p.
--David Ross



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[James Britt]

Is anyone going to be filming rubycon? I would really like to watch
some of the presentations. Furthermore, does anyone have enough spare
bandwidth that they might be able to host these videos in some
decently compressed format?

It may be possible to host them on ruby-doc.org. Have to finish up
locking down bandwidth, and setting up torrent files for videos and
other large files.

James

 

[gabriele renzi]

James Britt ha scritto:

It may be possible to host them on ruby-doc.org. Have to finish up
locking down bandwidth, and setting up torrent files for videos and
other large files.

if you do, please do use some bittorrent (or ed2k links for that well).
It will save lots of bandwidth, allow everyone to contribute and make
faster downloads.

 

[James Britt]

James Britt ha scritto:

if you do, please do use some bittorrent (or ed2k links for that well).
It will save lots of bandwidth, allow everyone to contribute and make
faster downloads.

That's the plan. I don't think the disk space will be an issue, nor
bandwidth if it's spread out. Using BitTorrent in place of direct file
access will be a better option.

I have to experiment with the EuRuKo videos from 2003. (And with any
luck they'll be videos from EuRuKo 2004 videos as well.)


James

 

[Chad Fowler]

Is anyone going to be filming rubycon? I would really like to watch
some of the presentations. Furthermore, does anyone have enough spare
bandwidth that they might be able to host these videos in some
decently compressed format?

I have a digital video camera of my own and am also planning to try to
bring a professional video camera from work. My goal is to get a high
quality video this year. We've tried various things in years past,
but we've always been plagued by technical issues. Maybe this year
will be the year

Chad

 

[David Ross]

So someone is just going to put videos up on peer to
peer networks? Nice! --David Ross

That's the plan. I don't think the disk space will
be an issue, nor
bandwidth if it's spread out. Using BitTorrent in
place of direct file
access will be a better option.

I have to experiment with the EuRuKo videos from
2003. (And with any
luck they'll be videos from EuRuKo 2004 videos as
well.)


James

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[Robert McGovern]

I have a digital video camera of my own and am also planning to try to

bring a professional video camera from work. My goal is to get a high
quality video this year. We've tried various things in years past,
but we've always been plagued by technical issues. Maybe this year
will be the year

*Fingers crossed*

 

[Eric Hodel]

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Tips:

The screen is more important than the speaker. Unless you have a
really fancy camera, it won't handle the contrast difference and
you'll get no good video. (The screen will be a bright white square and
the speaker will be dark.)

You'll want to test this before recording real speakers. Try both with
black-on-white and white-on-black slides. Try with both the lights on
and off.

Unfortunately, to get a good angle on the screen, the camera needs to be
very close to the projector. Bring cables to jack into the audio system
or an external mike of some sort to avoid the noise of the projector's
exhaust fan.

Bring lots of tapes or a big external drive because dumping and
compressing digital video on a laptop takes considerable time and space.

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[Chad Fowler]

Tips:

The screen is more important than the speaker. Unless you have a
really fancy camera, it won't handle the contrast difference and
you'll get no good video. (The screen will be a bright white square and
the speaker will be dark.)

You'll want to test this before recording real speakers. Try both with
black-on-white and white-on-black slides. Try with both the lights on
and off.

Unfortunately, to get a good angle on the screen, the camera needs to be
very close to the projector. Bring cables to jack into the audio system
or an external mike of some sort to avoid the noise of the projector's
exhaust fan.

Bring lots of tapes or a big external drive because dumping and
compressing digital video on a laptop takes considerable time and space.

-->

Great, Eric. Thanks! I know you went through this frustration last
year, so you know what you're talking about

Chad

 

[Gavin Sinclair]

Robert McGovern ([email protected]) wrote:

Tips: [lots of good ones, including...]

Unfortunately, to get a good angle on the screen, the camera needs to be
very close to the projector. Bring cables to jack into the audio system
or an external mike of some sort to avoid the noise of the projector's
exhaust fan.

That being the case, is it possible to try and get plain audio
recordings as well? I mean, shoot for video, but someone else can be
recording audio, which will be better than nothing if the video
doesn't turn out well.

Cheers,
Gavin

 

[James Britt]

That being the case, is it possible to try and get plain audio
recordings as well? I mean, shoot for video, but someone else can be
recording audio, which will be better than nothing if the video
doesn't turn out well.

Plus the two two can be muxed (is that the right word?) afterwards if
the sound on the video is poor.

I did something like that when trying to clean up the EuRuKo 2003
videos, extracting the audio, filtering it, then rejoining it with the
video.


James

 

[Gavin Sinclair]

Gavin Sinclair wrote:

Plus the two two can be muxed (is that the right word?) [...]

If you're from New Zealand

Gavin

 

[Richard Kilmer]

We are going to have my buddy's audio mixing board, a wireless mic, and a
pre-amp. We can run the board into a camera also directly into a laptop to
record directly to MP3. I am gonna try and confirm borrowing a projector,
since my company does not own one itself. So, we will be set this year re:
getting solid recordings of the talks and be able to post things up quickly.
Actually, getting a list of sites before hand that would host these MP3's of
the conference would make it far easier to post quickly.

-rich

 

[Chad Fowler]

We are going to have my buddy's audio mixing board, a wireless mic, and a
pre-amp. We can run the board into a camera also directly into a laptop to
record directly to MP3. I am gonna try and confirm borrowing a projector,
since my company does not own one itself. So, we will be set this year re:
getting solid recordings of the talks and be able to post things up quickly.
Actually, getting a list of sites before hand that would host these MP3's of
the conference would make it far easier to post quickly.

We can obviously put them on the rubyconf website, though I'm thinking
this is a good bittorrent-only kind of thing.

Chad

 

[Richard Lyman]

Please don't 'bittorrent-only' anything. There are those of use who
aren't involved in Bittorrent-anything.

Thanks!

-Rich

 

[Hal Fulton]

Please don't 'bittorrent-only' anything. There are those of use who
aren't involved in Bittorrent-anything.

I'm not really familiar with BT since I don't usually deal with giant
files like that.

But I thought it was a server-side issue, am I wrong? Shouldn't anyone
be able to access a file served vis BT?


Hal

 

[James Britt]

We can obviously put them on the rubyconf website, though I'm thinking
this is a good bittorrent-only kind of thing.

Chad

Does anyone have, or know of, snake-simple instructions on how to host
large files in a public server, making them available only through
bittorrent.

I poked around, and can see how to make a torrent file, and then get
that torrent file to a tracker, but I gather from this that the target
file is expected to be available form my PC, and only when I run a
bittorrent client. I want to serve the files form ruby-doc.org, not my
home box.

I expect that I will need to run a tracker on the server hosting the
files. Is this what RubyForge does?

This is off-topic for Ruby in general, but handy info as large
Ruby-related files become available.

Thanks,

James

 

[James Britt]

Please don't 'bittorrent-only' anything. There are those of use who
aren't involved in Bittorrent-anything.

Thanks!

-Rich

What are the reasons people do not use bittorrent?

I'm thinking of torrent-only for any videos served from ruby-doc.org, as
it seems like a good solution for controlling bandwidth and sharing
distribution.


James