John Abreau wrote: > ...the video was watchable immediately... > ...you didn't have to wait for the end before starting to watch it.
That's correct. The problem we ran into was that the main portion of the presentation was a video recording that already existed on YouTube. There is a YouTube plugin for Hangouts, which lets you "DJ" the playback of videos hosted on YouTube and your other Hangout participants see what you see, including seeking and skipping to other videos. This worked when we tried it out via a private Hangout, but failed to work on Bill's PC inside the Hangout "On Air." (There are a number of behaviors that are different between private Hangouts and "On Air" Hangouts.) So we reverted to plan B, which was to play the video locally, and let followers on IRC know the video URL. We then started a new "On Air" Hangout for the Q&A session. Even then we seemed to have audio problems with the Hangout. We successfully tested Hangouts last Summer with the same hardware on the Boston.pm side (I believe), but this time out audio kept dropping out. Ricardo's audio also dropped out at points. You can observe both of these in the recording captured at YouTube, so we can't simply blame it on the network connection on one side. Plus the Hangouts plugin reloaded itself at a couple of points. Clearly Google is still working out the bugs... -Tom -- Tom Metro The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA "Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting." http://www.theperlshop.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
