Some friends of mine are interested in using the 95 for a transparency project in Michigan. This is a simple embed of a mogulus channel connected to one of those peoples press cameras. Its going to be interesting to see where they go with this technology.
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Michigan Transparency Project
Posted in Activism, geekspeak on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
qik now in Alpha for BlackBerry
Posted in Activism, geekspeak, tagged blackberry, Liberty on the Rocks, People's Press Collective, qik on October 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I know that many of my friends use BlackBerry phones so they’d want to know this. QIK has an alpha version available for BlackBerry. I don’t have a BlackBerry so if anyone tries this please comment on how it works. Alpha software is typically full of bugs, but it could work fine.
Get the software on [...]
Mogulus and the N95
Posted in geekspeak, tagged Democratic National Convention, Mogulus, Nokia N95, qik on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just bought a N95, its time to play with it.
I’ll let you know how it goes… I plan on installing qik and using a go phone sim card to accomplish this. If any of you would like to give me some pointers, please feel free to comment.
A moment of VLC ZEN
Posted in geekspeak, tagged Darwin Streaming Server, VLC on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Quicktime live streaming video set up, with windows media support. Using a 256 kbit video stream (mp4v) and a 64 kbit audio stream (mp4a), using quick time broadcaster to stream to quicktime streaming server (open source) on the same local computer. Once that is set up, the local QTSS relays to a dedicated server [...]
VLC Chaos… Not for the weak of heart.
Posted in geekspeak, tagged FreeBSD, Live Video, Quicktime, Streaming, VLC, vlc command line on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is possible to use quicktime broadcaster to send a RTSP stream to a relay server using VLC to receive rtsp and transcode that stream into MMS / ASF.
This means one can broadcast a live video / audio stream from a quicktime broadcaster to a server located in a high bandwidth location (some data center), [...]
Live Streaming Video: Techno Babble
Posted in geekspeak, tagged Darwin Streaming Server, FreeBSD, WiMax on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This may seem very out of place on this type of blog. I assure you it is not, but this may not be evident until later posts. Anyway…
Over the past few years I’ve dabbled in streaming video. With very little funding, I used open source software to experiment with different ways to incorporate video [...]
