[Newspoetry] tech rehearsal Wednesday night?

[Joe Futrelle]

Wednesday's not good for me, but I may not have to be there b/c once
you encode something in realvideo or quicktime it's trivial to put it
on the web.  I have my realserver running so I can stream realvideo,
and AFAIK quicktime will stream from ordinary web servers.

IMO the download time / quality issue is moot for streaming video,
because there is no such thing as high-quality streaming video over
modems.  The bandwidth just isn't there.  For non-streaming video, the
sky's the limit in terms of quality, but unless somebody already knows
they want to watch a clip, it's usually not worth waiting for it to
download to check it out.

On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:28:25AM -0500, gillespie william k wrote:
> Brian, and anybody else interested in the digital mechanics of this, how
> would you like to get together at OJC with Kord's videorecorder Wednesday
> at 6 or 7 and just try to videotape things and encode them and put them on
> the Web so as to run through the whole procedure and make sure all the
> pieces of the puzzle are there, figure out videorecording techniques (it
> was mentioned that closeups are key as distortion is a factor), figure out
> how we're doing audio, etcetera etcetera. Perhaps we can videotape someone
> reading a recent poem and go through all thr troubole of adding 2 minutes
> of video to the site...
> 
> And perhaps Thursday would be a good night to try performance rehrearsals
> for those who want... Songs and staging... Maybe with a trip to Sweet
> Betsy's for dinner...
> 
> > I'm still unsure which we should use.  Which'll be more important for this
> > web site, time or quality?  
> 
> All other factors being equal, I'd steer toward quality over download
> time. I suspect there are a great many factors however.
> 
> And who's actually gonna be designing this
> > page, do ya know? 
> 
> I'm the default, but if you want to work on it that'd be peachy with me.
> 
> William
> 
> 
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