Michael Chase-Salerno wrote:
While I agree that the presentation slides were mostly not legible,
overall I found the stream reasonably watchable and I think it did
provide more context and connectedness than a desktop screencast would
provide.
It sounds like different people saw different things, ranging from
"mostly legible" to "a block per word".
I don't think going full screen would make it any better, there's just
a lot of compression/frame reduction/pixel reduction/magic sauce there
to get the performance needed for the live stream.
Well, does it have to be a /live/ stream? If we're not doing remote Q&A
or on-screen collaboration (just one way feed), would there be any
advantage to making it a non-streamed canned movie (various formats)? If
that would result in better picture quality for everyone, it might be
worth losing the real-time aspect of it. It would also let viewers see
it later (time shift) or replay parts of it. I guess this would be
getting into "TiVO" mode.
A simpler solution to a screen cast would be to simply insure that the
slides are available to download when the meeting starts. Then you get
the benefit of the live stream, and clear slides without any more
bandwidth concerns.
Yes, that would be helpful, to be able to bring up slides locally,
side-by-side with the stream presentation. That assumes that stream
quality is good enough that we can tell which slide we're looking at,
and that every slide is clearly labeled in case the presenter needs to
jump around. Is there a standard format for slides that we can agree
upon? How far in advance would slides have to be uploaded so that people
can grab them before the meeting starts?
Mike
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