• INTRODUCTION
• INTRODUCTION
• ABOUT THIS MANUAL
• WHAT IS?
• STREAMING?
• OGG THEORA?
• GETTING READY
• PREPRODUCTION
• THE CREW
• FOOD & COFFEE
• THE WEB PAGE
• SERVER DETAILS
• MODERATION
• HARDWARE
• HARDWARE
• CAMERA TECHNIQUE
• AUDIO TECHNIQUE
• SOFTWARE ENCODERS
• SETTINGS
• TSS
• INSTALLING TSS
• USING TSS
• TITLES AND STYLE
• OPENOFFICE.ORG
• EMBEDDING
• TESTING
• Testing
• REMOTE CONTRIBUTIONS
• MODERATION
• PLAYERS
• ARCHIVES
• EDITORS
• FFMPEG
• Pitivi
• KDENLIVE
• TRANSCODING
• TIPS N TRICKS
• Troubleshooting
• APPENDICES
• CREDITS
• Archives
• Equipment
• TheSchedule

SOME OF THIS BELOW SHOULD GO INSIDE HARDWARE UNDER THE GETTING READY CHAPTER

Somebody Should Set The Title For This Chapter!

We will like to consider a list of things we might need to stream a conference or similar event, they will be divided in 2 sets, one for the cases when theres no budget whatsoever to pay for renting or adquiring equipment like cameras or video mixers.

Minimum Set:
-Internet Connection (128kbps minimum upload link.)

-Icecast server
(mention the different options to get a mountpoint plus the possibility to install one as it is stated on the floss manuals icecast entry)

-Stream machine (computer running GNU/Linux)
2.2GHZ dual core, 4gig ram will be capable of providing a stream with 2 targets, high and low resolution. Firewire card or USB port for video input.

-Webcam with V4l (video for linux) support

In case we don't have a Digital Video camera available, we can still use any webcam supported by GNU/linux, there are many that will do the job. You can do a quick search here to know if yours is supported: http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/

-External microphone
We should avoid using the internal microphone since it pick all the computer noises. (I always use alsamixer, phps it will be nice to add some info related to how to be sure you mic is working well?)

Conditions allowing, an Ideal set could comprehend the following:

-VGA to composite video scan converter
-Video mixer
-Digital video camera with firewire port
-Audio Mixer
-Sound Compressor
-Computer to generate credits