Video conferencing

[Skye]

Re: Video conferencing

I've done some testing and it looks like I can embed the mebeam code in a Treeleaf page, so I'll work on that tonight and post the links when it's ready.

Great idea Jundo, having separate sitting and chat rooms. How cool would it be to have a sitting room where people from across the world are doing their shikantaza live 24 hours a day?? Wow, that's pretty amazing. I'm kind of surprised nobody has done this before!

Skye
aka Scotty
or more of an O'Brien? curly hair and all... doesn't rhyme though

[Longdog]

Re: Video conferencing

Wow that's great and there's me ferrying my daughter up and down the country in a car with my shiny new webcam sat on the seat waiting to be plugged in

Anyhow got it now, Logitech quick cam communicate STX, if that means anything to anyone.

Expect some dumb(er?) questions from me in the near future.

Beam me up Scotty

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Charles]

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Skye,

This is exciting. I think I'm going to have to buy a webcam. Speaking of which...

If anyone needs a really good webcam, I recommend the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000:

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-960-0000 ... B000RZQZM0

Two questions about this. Does it need to be mounted on a monitor, or will it stand up on its own? (I'm asking because I mostly use my laptop, and I doubt it'll clip to my laptop lid easily.) And, do you know how well it works under Linux? There seem to be drivers, but that doesn't necessarily mean all features will be supported... (My main desktop machine runs Linux, and I might want to use it with that machine occasionally.)

Thanks,

--Charles (Who knows nothing about webcams)

[Damian]

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I'm liking this a lot... I have had a webcam for 2 years and never use it as I am not much for chat rooms, I never figure I have anything important to say. Anyway, I went home and plugged it in just to check if it still works and low and behold There I was all by myself. Anyway I work so I look forward to trying to get into a session with all of you. I hope this timezone thing works itself out... I get so confused even with the map! Maybe I will just set my watch to Japan time and just move from there. This is great!

Gassho,
Damian

[Skye]

Re: Video conferencing

If anyone needs a really good webcam, I recommend the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000:
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-960-0000 ... B000RZQZM0

Two questions about this. Does it need to be mounted on a monitor, or will it stand up on its own? (I'm asking because I mostly use my laptop, and I doubt it'll clip to my laptop lid easily.) And, do you know how well it works under Linux? There seem to be drivers, but that doesn't necessarily mean all features will be supported... (My main desktop machine runs Linux, and I might want to use it with that machine occasionally.)

It stands up really well on its own, and it clips very well to both my desktop LCD monitor and my Powerbook laptop. Clip is sort of a misnomer, the back is adjustable so it just sort of balances securely on top.



It's a UVC compliant webcam (most "Vista ready" webcams are) so it will work under most Linux distributions with the http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ drivers.

Skye

[Charles]

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It stands up really well on its own, and it clips very well to both my desktop LCD monitor and my Powerbook laptop. Clip is sort of a misnomer, the back is adjustable so it just sort of balances securely on top.

Excellent. If it works on your powerbook chances are it'll work on mine

It's a UVC compliant webcam (most "Vista ready" webcams are) so it will work under most Linux distributions with the http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/ drivers.

More excellent. Thanks!

--Charles

[will]

Re: Video conferencing

BTW Good Job Skye. Thanks.

G,W

[will]

Re: Video conferencing

There was some latency on the audio. Kelly mentioned combining Skype with mebeam. Do you think that would work better for audio?

G,W

[Skye]

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OK, I've banged together a very basic template and emedded the MeBeam code. Please use this link now:

http://www.treeleaf.org/zendo/sitting-room.php

I'll leave up a feed of my wonderful messy apartment so you know its working

Like anything, the audio will work better if everyone uses headsets, or at least mutes their own mic when they aren't talking to prevent echo. I assume the "sitting room" will be mostly silent anyway, but we can always try other things in the "chat" room, when its up.

Thanks,
Skye

[Longdog]

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Sorry ConfusedSan here :lol:

My web cam is all sorted and working. When I click on your link to the sitting room there is just a smal bluish box in the top left with nothing in.

Is this 'me' and if so should I see myself?
Or is it where some one will appear if they're in the room?
Is there anyhing else I need to do to use the room?
Do have have to do anything else on the page to use it?

Sorry for the dumbo quesions.

KEv

[Undo]

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Bloomin eck skye you have been busy, again!!!!
( You need to slow down or my wife will expect me to be more productive at home )

Kev when you enter the room the blue square is where you will appear once you have "allowed" the link up. To do this you need to look at the white box which appears in the centre of the room. Within the white square you should see the words "Allow" next to a white tick in a green circle. Just to the left of that is a smaller white circle. You need to click in that with your mouse. This just confirms you want to go live. (otherwise it might turn on and broadcast without you knowing).

I hope that is right and easy enough to follow.




Thanks again everyone. That was my first "real time" sit with other people. Where better than here
(perhaps a beach in Bali but that's not what I meant)

[Longdog]

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Cheers seems OK now. I think I needed to turn my camera off and clear my cache as when I did and went back on i was there.

Also set up a room for my widespread family to meet, is that reasonably secure as long as no one else stumbles on the room name?

Can you make the picture on screen bigger??

So when will some one be there???

In gassho for all of this KEV

[Longdog]

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Just struck me as very amusing. All this techonolgy to send sound and video 'real time' around the world and what do we do, sit still and stay silent ROFLMAO :lol:

[will]

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Great isn't it Kev?

G,W

[will]

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btw I'll be sitting in about a hour if you want to get together or we can get together this evening. say 10-11pm my time 3-4pm your time I think.

G,W