[Coco] Chicago webcam

[Roger Taylor]

At 08:41 PM 3/10/2007, you wrote:
>Roger..........
>Its time to get the bugs worked out of the webcam for the Fest. 
>Could you set up one of the chat rooms for me to upload to.
>
>Here is my email so we can exchange the passwords and stuff.
>daveekelly at earthlink.net
>
>To the rest of the crew. I will announce here when I will be on the 
>air so you can monitor and give me feedback on quality. etc.
>
>Dave
>
>--


Dave.

Out of respect for the festgoers and people who had an issue last 
year, I'll host a cam if the idea is blessed by others who attend the 
fest.  If GCCC wants a feed on www.annualcocofest.com, I maintain 
that site and can put an image there on the front page and in 
CoCo3.com's HTML chat by referencing a single feed you upload 
anywhere on the web, including my server space.  This ofcourse would 
be in favor of those who simply cannot attend the fest but really 
really would like to hang out and talk with people there, etc.

To those people wanting to watch I wanted to make it clear that a 
video feed from a fest is not set up to pursuade you to not attend, 
but to help let the event been noticed by lost CoCo users who 
CONTINUOUSLY discover the CoCo web sites on the internet.  We get new 
signups in the forums every day from lost CoCo users who didn't even 
know the fests were still taking place.

I know we used simple FTP uploads before, but if you wanted to use a 
streaming server outside of CoCo3.com, I can still show the stream 
from the chatrooms by emedding a Media Player in the page that 
references the streaming server that's rebroadcasting your 
upstream.  This means that you can maintain a fast upload as one 
stream using Windows Media Encoder, and the rebroadcast server can 
handle hundreds or thousands of viewers.  As well, any other CoCo 
site could embed the same Media Player code to access the fest stream.

Whatever software you use, let me know so I can help you set it up 
for simultaneous FTP and streaming so that non-Windows visitors can 
still see a periodic image.  I've got a lot of video/webcam programs 
in my archives and some of my website clients are using them 
24/7.  One such site I built has been running a Barn Cam for at least 
4 years using the FTP method over 
dial-up.  www.waldenhillfarm.com.  Another is streaming to a 
rebroadcast server.  You can literally watch the miniature horses 
swat flies with their tails.  :)  www.abminiaturehorses.com









-- 
Roger Taylor