Hi Patrick,
On 02.07.20 15:21, Patrick Ohnewein (FSFE) wrote: > On 02.07.20 13:56, Erik Albers wrote: >> there is the interest of a medium-sized German city to stream its city >> council >> meetings to the internet. They would like to use Free Software, are willing >> to >> spend some money for it and are looking for help now. >> >> Apparently there is OBS Studio in this area [1]. Theoretically, this could >> also be possible via Big Blue Button [2]? Does anyone here have experience >> with any of the mentioned software or in general with live streaming and Free >> Software and can share recommendations / pitfalls? > About OBS Studio: > > With OBS Studio we collected some experiences streaming jitsi sessions > to YouTube as live streams. It works very well. > > The computer with OBS Studio installed needs to be strong in CPU and > RAM. Very important is also a very good uplink to the Internet! > > You need of course cameras streaming video signals to the OBS Studio > machine. > > What is even more difficult most of the times, is to get a good audio > quality from the microphones. The question to be answered is: How do you > get the audio stream in good quality into OBS Studio machine? > > Last but not least, consider spending the money on the person who will > do a good direction and recording. The director using OBS Studio has to > mix different camera sources, like ambience camera, camera focused on > speakers and slides. > > We are evaluating OBS Studio as a possible solution for the SFScon[3] > this year. We foresee the conference to be held in blended mode with > participants at NOI Techpark and others connecting online. > > The main difference between BBB and OBS Studio is, that BBB is a > collaboration platform, which allows recording and streaming of the > session as is, OBS Studio is a tool to mix different video and audio > sources to create recordings and streaming with the ability to have > different scenes like speaker video on screen to the slides, etc. not > just a plain recording of a BBB or jitsi session. > [1] https://www.lugbz.org/tutorial-bigbluebutton/ > [2] https://hackathon.bz.it/ > [3] https://www.sfscon.it/ thank you very much for this brilliant insight, that is exactly the information I was looking for and that hopefully helpful for Fürstenfeld Bruck as well. I copy Tobias into the discussion who is researching solutions and necessary technical setup for the city, so he can ask more details himself if needed. Best, Erik -- No one shall ever be forced to use non-free software Erik Albers | Programme Manager & Communication | FSFE OpenPGP Key-ID: 0x8639DC81 on keys.gnupg.net _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion This mailing list is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct. All participants are kindly asked to be excellent to each other: https://fsfe.org/about/codeofconduct