[opensolaris-summit] Agenda topics: "Multimedia & Gaming on OpenSolaris"

[Albert Lee]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 13:47 -0700, Linh Hoang wrote:
> Hi Dev,
> 
> I'm wondering if we also need or want to have a video feed. Is there a 
> software that can capture the screen and just broadcast to the internet? 
> I'm thinking of something similar to VNC with no remote control 
> permission. I could help you with getting an ice server online and 
> hosting it at UCSC if you need one.

To do live screencasts, you can use ffmpeg with "x11grab" as the
source, and stream with ffserver. GNOME's Istanbul (not yet packaged,
AFAIK) can stream to icecast2, so that may be another option. For live
streaming, webcams might be sufficient since there is usually some
degree of off-screen activity.

>  From Jesse's minutes, it seems we don't have computer lab access. I 
> have few old Sun machines (enterprise 1, ultra sparc 1,  and giant CRT 
> monitors etc) that I could bring out to the courtyard. I also have a few 
> switches and a wireless router that I could help setup. Baskin has two 
> wireless networks but I don't think you get in as non-student.

Someone set up a public AP last year, that will probably happen again
although it wouldn't hurt to have more networking stuff. I think most
people will have access to laptops, so the old SPARCs shouldn't be
needed.

-Albert