Re: Kernel 2.5 Workshop RealVideo streams -- next time, please getbetter audio.

[Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>]

"Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Miles Lane wrote:
> 
> >> hand someone a mike.
> >
> >I like this idea quite a bit.  It would probably not
> >be terribly expensive to rent/buy the required equipment,
> >it would be easy to use and would not be terribly disruptive
> >to the preceedings.
> >
> >I'm curious, didn't you find that those mikes are too
> >directionally sensitive?  I've noticed that the movement
> >of the speaker by just an inch or two can cause major
> >variations in signal reception (I've only tried that
> >little plastic parabolic eavesdropping "toy" that was
> >all the rage about two Christmasses ago -- there was one
> >floating around my office).
> 
> Just to keep this on topic... the real question is what would be
> the best way to interface this sound system into the Linux
> kernel?

This is not the topic (I don't really care how the audio
recordings get merged or how the final recording is delivered
as RealVideo/RealAudio streams).  The topic is "how do we
get recordings of Linux-related discussions in the future 
that capture all the comments of the participants."  

It would be great if we could get a good approach nailed
down so that it could be used at Linux BOF discusssions
and development team presentations in the future.

OT: It would be great to have a central repository for Linux-
related audio/video streams.  For example, it'd be great to 
get some of the LinuxTag, LinuxWorld, Comdex, CBIT and other
presentations made available on the web.  Perhaps even more
valuable, from a development information dissemination 
standpoint, would be recordings of "birds of a feather" 
discussions.

	Miles