Technical Question to Jukai-ees (from Jundo)

[Hogen]

Re: Technical Question to Jukai-ees (from Jundo)

I noticed a couple of times during zazenkai that the sound was barely audible on speakers but that I could hear fairly well with headphones. It was the same yesterday.

definitely. headphones saved me at one point from being a little lost ops:

[Shohei]

Re: Technical Question to Jukai-ees (from Jundo)

Hi A jukai ee from the bleachers -
One issue that I know comes up from time to time in all of these video chat is the browser and mode its in on a Mac - 64bit safari will not work that Mike pointed it out again on the Teaparty, it will not allow you to even touch the "settings" box that appears to give permissions to the mebeam site to access your camera and sound. The solution is to run the current browser in 32bit mode by a few steps, or downloading, firefox or chrome... either way not elegant for sure.
Dokan's suggestion of a dry run is great! Many a slip from the cup to the lip so a few hours rather than the day before would be wise.

Dokan your tty service was invaluable! I could faintly hear everything and when you started typing it out it was perfect (thank you again!)
And as he mentioned it may be viable option for the next ceremony. Thing is I have tried a lot of the pay services etc when investigating something for the Zen hall some time back and the only one I remember functioning well was Webex and that is pricey!

So far, google+ is stable and improving in many ways ! I find it bandwidth heavy for me with more than a few persons (due to the type of Internet service I am able to get) on but I think most would find it acceptable.

Gassho
Shohei

[Onken]

Re: Technical Question to Jukai-ees (from Jundo)

I finally got to a camera and kept getting bounced off of Mebeam as well. I couldn't get on with Firefox, but did well with Safari. It eventually worked anyway. Great experience.

Gassho,

Onken

[Amelia]

Re: Technical Question to Jukai-ees (from Jundo)

I got "bounced off" Mebeam a few times, but it would just keep putting me back in it right after. I didn't know how to turn on my mic, so I didn't mess with it. I was able to hear Jundo fine.

[Kyonin]

Re: Technical Question to Jukai-ees (from Jundo)

Hi Jundo,

I had to get out of Mebeam because I wasn't listening anything. I thought the video was sucking up the bandwidth so turned it off.

After the ceremony I tried to see how my connection speed was and everything was okay, so I guess Mebeam worked fine. It was your microphone, I guess.

[Nindo]

Re: Technical Question to Jukai-ees (from Jundo)

So why wouldn't skype work for this? I've never used group skype sessions ... just wondering?

[Kaishin]

Re: Technical Question to Jukai-ees (from Jundo)

I had two separate laptops setup, one running Mebeam and the other Justin.tv. However, I still had trouble with Mebeam dropping me/reloading.

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