On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 07:50:17PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Philip, > > thanks for jumping in. > > On Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, Philip Paeps wrote: > > ULB "doesn't like it" if we start interfering with classes (in fact, they > > get very upset) so there is a limit to what we can do in the morning. In > > previous years, we've mainly moved equipment in, and laid down the wired > > network trunks running along the main corridors. We can't get into the > > lecture rooms until classes are over. > > when is it? (the earliest for one of the 5 rooms the video team is interested > in...) > > is there a room where can put in our things early on friday morning (so, say > 11 or 12 :) and which we then can use to hook devices together to test things? > > aka a working room. > > > Do not underestimate the time it takes to move equipment into the building. > > You may not be able to park in front of the building and have to ferry > > stuff from the parking lot above. > > right > > > Last year we had a gigabit uplink. I haven't seen the paperwork from > > Belnet yet, but 50Mbit should not be a problem. I will prod the people > > who know exactly what we get and report. > > I'd much prefer encoding at ULB and then sending 5 1mbit streams to > fluendo.com, instead of sending two 25mbit links over there where fluendo.com > is hosting, which quite likely is in Spain. > > I really doubt we have constant+uninterrupted 25mbit - and if we dont, the > stream will break. Then I would rather not do streaming.
Good point. Hadn't thought of that. > So, where do we get encoding servers? As to hardware: I will have a few spare laptops, we can use some of those as encoding "servers". They should be fairly modern, and thus capable enough to do this. "a few" means: I have rented one more than I need, strictly speaking; the rental people said they'll add one extra "just in case"; and I also have my two-year-old personal HP laptop which I'm not personally using but which otherwise is still in good enough condition. If needs be, I can bring my DVD player (a 2.8Ghz Core2Duo or thereabouts in a desktop case) as well. Four machines for transcoding five DV streams should be plenty, and we can probably put all of them at the NOC. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video
