[Air-L] Livestreaming at AOIR

Tue Oct 14 13:50:36 PDT 2014

One "gotcha" with YouTube: if you happen to have music playing (and it could be almost anything, from something in the background to something someone uses as part of their slides), youtube will catch it within seconds (their robots will), and blacklist you. Not only does that cut off your stream in the middle of an event, but it can take *months* to get your account reinstated, even if you have a completely legitimate claim to fair use or whatever. We had a speaker include a small snippet of a film soundtrack - she is an expert on sound in films - and ... BANG ... our account was banished to the "bad boys" club, limiting us to streams of 5 minutes or less. Grrr. We eventually made our way back to Yahoo's good graces, but beware that this is a "Guilty until proven innocent" world, and the robots don't care about your academic purpose or legitimacy of use.

...r

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Edwin Dittrich" <s.e.dittrich at gmail.com>
To: joly at punkcast.com
Cc: "Researchers" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>, "Alice E. Marwick" <amarwick at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 1:44:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Livestreaming at AOIR

Hi everyone,

I think Joly makes excellent points, and from my experience streaming for
the german Heinrich-Böll Foundation I can only emphasize that clean audio
is very important if not the most important aspect of Web casting. Unless
you have slides/presentations that provide some visual stimulus, webcasts
are usually pretty boring excepting what is being said.

Best,

Simon
 Am 14.10.2014 19:18 schrieb "Joly MacFie" <joly at punkcast.com>:

> Hi,
>
> This is my area of expertise, as I regularly run webcasts for ISOC.
>
> YouTube offer a good free service, it's a little quirky, needs a practice
> or two, but works well. Allows embedding. Other pluses - it's html5 and
> IPv6 and converts to multibitrate. Segmenting is hard, but one can index
> afterwards. Easy enough to set up separate events for all three tracks.
>
> You do need to have a YouTube channel that is validated via SMS.
>
> Alternatively we at ISOC could lend you a Livestream server, f'rinstance
> http://bit.ly/isoctv - Simple software client - Segmenting is easy. Just
> stop and start on the breaks. and it's possible, if you have the slides on
> the streaming machine, to easily do split screen. Only one track.
>
> But, and it's a big but, what really matters is getting a clean audio
> signal - preferably a direct line from the board - alternatively the output
> from a zoom recorder positioned close to either speakers or the podium.
> There'[s a further tricky bit to match input to the pc unless it has line
> in.
>
> Happy to help in any way I can.
>
> joly
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Alice E. Marwick <amarwick at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm one of the participants in the selfie events (pre-conference
> workshop,
> > panel, and fishbowl), and we're trying to figure out how we can best
> allow
> > non-attendees to participate. We'd like to livestream the events and
> > include some sort of participation from watchers (a chat channel, at
> > least).
> >
> > I was looking at UStream but they have "pivoted" to enterprise use and if
> > there's another possibility I'd like to explore that.
> >
> > Any ideas? What have people used for streaming that has worked well for
> > them?
> >
> > We'll probably just bring an extra laptop with a webcam and use that to
> > stream the events, but other suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > Warmly,
> > Alice
> >
> > --
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> > Fordham University
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