Re: MM Webcast Reception report - 3/7/2001

["Lawrence A. Rowe" <Rowe@bmrc.berkeley.edu>]

Denis DeLaRoca wrote:
> 
> Larry,
> 
> Americ's engaging presentation came thru perfectly via RealVideo -- save
> for a brief pause/frieze about 13:20.
> 
> This is one time, where better technology/means would make a big
> difference in being able to see online screens, projected images and
> blackboard stuff... audio nowadays is very clean, but audio from audience
> members is still a tad low.
> 
> Also, when Americ was talking about the comfort of the room -- toward the
> end of the seminar -- and the ability to move, the cameras *did* not
> succeed in tracking him thru his walk in the room... is this because of
> operator inattention in the control room or did some automatic process
> fail to take place?
> 
> And unfortunately, the seminar had to end at 14:30 sharp and so we missed
> Americ's last remarks in response to some of your observations. :-(
> 
> All in all, great seminar and broadcast!. Hopefully, things were as
> uneventful for the multicast version of the webcast.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -- Denis
---
Well several comments...

1. i've got a pointer to some rgb digitizing hardware that we might be
able to acquire.  it will require building some boards and developing
software drivers so it won't happen right away, but i continue to work
on it.
2. americ didn't make any substantive comments to my comment.  he just
agreed.  i concur that it would be nice to capture the after the talk
discussions -- i'll have to thing about that.
3. the walk around... hummm, erik, any idea what happened?  we don't
have the speaker tracking hardware installed yet -- it's been ordered,
but not installed.

AND, i'm still pushing to get the cisco switches installed so we can
start doing rtptv webcasts.
	Larry

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