<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:41:17AM +1100, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:<br>
> I believe the important bit is to make sure the transcoding and upload is<br>> happening and there is sufficient sys admin support to keep the published<br>> video content going. Thus, it somehow ties together with the idea of "LUG in<br>
> a box" presented at the AGM.<br><br></div>Right. I don't think we're at the point where we can give people a<br>pre-packaged encoding solution though, right? Presumably most LUGs have<br>a member with a box that can transcode a 30m-2h talk within a week or so.</blockquote>
<div><br>Agreed.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Maybe we could schedule an IRC meetup one weekend a month after the<br>
talks are done, for LUGs (and annodex and lca vidteam and such) to talk<br>about encoding/uploading problems and work out how to fix any bugs,<br>or generally smooth out the process?</blockquote><div><br>There's not really much to do, but I'm happy to give advice in an irc meeting if required.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">> BTW: we recently had to purchase a new camera for SLUG and decided to go for<br>
> a Hard Disk recording camera. That avoids the tedious task of recording to<br>> DVD. Transcoding still has to be done and the JVC that we bought<br>> unfortunately has a slightly proprietary MPEG format, so it took some<br>
> trickery to get it to work. But it's a much easier lot of equipment to<br>> purchase. The camera cost $1530 plus you will need a decent tripod for min<br>> $300.<br><br></div>Hrm, <a href="http://camerastore.com.au" target="_blank">camerastore.com.au</a> (first google hit I found) has a JVC Everio<br>
40GB GZ-MG575 for $1200, with apparently a 5 megapixel CCD and 9h40m<br>recording time at max quality.<br><br> <a href="http://www.camerastore.com.au/JVC+Everio+40gb+HDD+GZ%2DMG575_details.htm" target="_blank">http://www.camerastore.com.au/JVC+Everio+40gb+HDD+GZ%2DMG575_details.htm</a><br>
</blockquote><div><br>Looks good to me. It's important that it has a microphone input, which is where most cameras fail! And you want enough space for the recording of a night's talks. We got the next model up - not quite sure why, but it seemed the right decision.<br>
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Also, adding Mikal's idea of essentially putting these onto a blog, and thus<br>
vidcast, this more or less creates Tux TV ;)<br><br>If we set a limit of $1500 or $2000 per LUG, we could do at least six<br>to eight LUGs with a budget of, say, $12,000; more if some LUGs could<br>do things cheaper.</blockquote>
<div><br>Or add some of their own money.<br> <br>Cheers,<br>Silvia.<br></div></div>