[TriLUG] June Meeting Streaming Experiment

[Mike Shaw]

I have to say I'm with Tanner on the flash troubles and I only run
Linux at my house.  Just for example, trying to get "Gundam 00" to
play off of YouTube made Firefox crash everytime if I tried to go
fullscreen.  If you live off of flash like I do (games for kids,
streaming video - Hulu, Joost, Youtube, etc.) then you see the problem
daily!

l8r,

Mike
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Michael Kimsal<mgkimsal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tanner, sorry you're having Flash/browser problems.  My brother experiences
> Flash issues under Linux sometimes, but I can't recall that I ever did.
> Certainly not in the last few years running modern distros (mixes of ubuntu
> and mandrake from 2005-2008).
>
> Running a mix of Linux and Mac and Windows for the past several years, I've
> got *one* problem with Flash on one Mac - 10.4.x - where Flash under Firefox
> just quit working.  Browser loads fine, Flash just doesn't execute.  I
> haven't bothered to try to fix it (upgrading versions or reinstalling)
> because it works under Safari and I don't use that computer all that much.
> So, yes, I understand (and have experienced firsthand) people have browser
> problems with Flash sometimes.
>
> Very interested to see what alternatives people propose to streaming videos,
> and to what extent those are easier than using pre-done Flash solutions.
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
>
>> I'm certainly in favor of easy solutions that fill the need.  If
>> ustream.tv was a workable solution that fulfilled the need, presumably
>> we wouldn't be having this discussion, we'd just be praising Tanner
>> for showing off it's virtues.  :)  As I stated originally, I haven't
>> looked at, and have no knowledge of, ustream.tv, justin.tv, or any of
>> these other purported streaming/webcasting services.
>>
>> To turn the tables yet again, if one of those solutions is easy and
>> takes advantage of someone else's bandwidth and setup for free, please
>> demonstrate it at the next meeting.  I'm sure we'd all love to see
>> this come together.
>>
>> Aaron S. Joyner
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Tanner Lovelace<clubjuggler at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Michael Kimsal<mgkimsal at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> I guess I understand the sentiment of wanting to support "open source",
>> but
>> >> what you've described is already what ustream is, except it's using
>> Flash,
>> >> which you don't seem to like.  But it IS supported on Linux, Windows and
>> Mac
>> >> - it's the most reasonably cross-platform way to do something like this
>> with
>> >> a minimum of fuss.
>> >
>> > Michael,
>> >
>> > If by supported you mean "continually crashes the browser upon startup "
>> > then I'll agree.  But otherwise, after trying out ustream.tv last night,
>> I
>> > wouldn't recommend it for anything.  (And, I'm not even running flash
>> > on Linux. I was running it on OS X.)
>> >
>> > Yes, what Aaron describes is exactly what the flash based ones
>> > do, but being able to get flash completely out of the way would go
>> > a long way towards making things more stable, I think.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Tanner
>> >
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