On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 03:23:14PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > 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. > > so how many do you have in total? > > There are 6 in Paris and if needed, I could probably also bring an extra one.
Including the ones from Paris, excluding the ones I'm renting for other people in the organization, there will be 6 (IRILL) + 8 (rental) + 1 (rental, probably, not confirmed) + 2 (mine) - 3 (two infodesk laptops, one for lightning talks), for a grand total of 14. We need two per room (a DVswitch/camera capture laptop, a twinpact grabber laptop), so that leaves 10 spare. Unless you think I'm miscalculating something. [...] -- 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
