Hi Aidan :
Glad to hear you are getting away for a couple of days . You'll
probably be gone by the time this message hits the cyber-space .
I prefer to give credit where it's due and forgot to mention
that yesterday's stream was viewed via 'Videolan' , the dynamite
little multi-codec freware viewer . http://www.videolan.org/
This little beast will do realtime transcoding , serve streams
too , and comes with a ton of built-in codecs (so you won't have
to install questionable codecs [like QT]) .
Great , great little viewer .
What S/W did you guys use to stream ? What size pipe ? (etc)
Enjoy your getaway !
garry
Cheers Gary,
Glad you got a look in on the parade live stream - nice to hear it
broadcasted out fine.
Yip - the Irish were a huge export - not because they wanted to but
due to hard economic times, particularly pre 1990's. All my buddies
from college etc all left on the plane to the states or OZ. I think I
was the only one left here. I suppose I survived here on playing
music and working for myself - wasnt easy but got better.
Go back then to the mid to late 1800's - huge exporting then due to
the potato famine and prison ships to OZ. So Irelands history in the
last 200 years or so has been a tale of mass emigration to all
corners of the earth and most NOT because they wanted to - more they had to.
I will raise a glass to your mum in the next day or so. Myself and
caroline are off for two days R & R tomorrow, place in west cork
called Bantry. Getting away after a looooonnnngggg frenetic weekend
of messy gigs - 5 gigs in 4 days.
Cheers and slainte,
Aidan
At 02:52 18/03/2008, you wrote:
To see a traditional Irish Town Parade nip over here at about
3:30pm GMT today, Patricks Day ( 18th ):
http://www.macroom.ie/patricksdaycam.htm
Managed to just catch the beginning of the parade .
The streaming was very good . Watched it full screen and it
also had 22Khz/16 bit sound ! Unreal ! @ ~ 25KBytes/second .
Loved the part at the end where everyone was invited to
give big "shouts out" to friends and relatives around the
world . Seems one of Irelands biggest exports is people .
Happy Paddys Day to ye all,
Shur everyone is Irish today, enjoy a tipple :)
Cheers
Aidan
Thanks , St Paddies was me poor old mum's birthday , so then,
I tries to get drunk every year , in her honour , of course !
cheers (this Bud's for you)
garry
