- People seem to want several different stream qualities
- They also want continuous streams
We should have team meetings during debconf (not just before)
We should decide and describe the process before debconf
- We should have a work-timetable with all talks before debconf starts
- We should start encoding as early as possible; check the results as soon as they're ready
- Camera operators need to spend some time getting familiar with all the cameras they will use
- We may need use of storage servers for some time beyond the conference in case we cannot take away data immediately at the end
- We really need proper audio equiqment for all venues because built-in mics are too sensitive to environmental noise
- Not every presentation program suppresses the screensaver
- License should be sorted out beforehand
Suggestions / Ideas:
- Display information about the next talk in streams when they aren't live
- Provide audio-only streams as well as the video+audio streams
- Use ogg speex instead of vorbis?
- Live subtitling could be an option to explore for:
- Displaying the speaker's name, e-mail address, talk title
- Displaying mail addresses, URLs and stuff the speaker mentions and could be useful if appearing in text form
- It is necessary to research the viability of this
- Provide live slide screenshots on a web server (as done in bulma meetings) or as a stream with a suitable codec
- The same program could suppress the screensaver
- Get slides / important texts / URLs / e-mail adresses / other used files (e.g. videos) beforehand, and make them simpler to use for people watching the stream (though that wouldn't really be the video team's job)
The camera's microphone is sometimes the best positioned microphone, so a camera-mounted microphone should be fed to the mixer
- Get an active VGA splitter if we need the presenter's laptop signal multiple times
Write some ?DebConfVideoSoftware to automate video processing so far as possible
Require everyone involved in recording to grant an appropriate license to their work, preferably ?DebConfVideoLicense