Internet Media Streaming Training
Team, I came across this video searies which explains exactly how do our video streaming and live broadcasting. Its a great way to gain a bit of technical understanding of how things work under the hood.
Streaming Basics
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New Embedded Viewer
Hey, check out the new embedded video viewer for "recent recordings" on the recent recordings page. Let me know how it looks, works, etc.
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Church Infrastructure Changes
Last night I moved the FireBox and the DSL modem from the boiler room to the storage closet. This was done to keep these electronic boxes a bit cooler during the Summer months. After relocation, the network came up and seemed to be running normally. Just wanted ya'll to know about the changes.
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Far Flung "Internet Members" Help With Van Project
Joe Lacopo reports that an "Internet Member" in Florida has sent in a contribution to help with the Katrina Van project! Awesome!
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4th Camera Installed
Yesterday, Brent and I (mostly Brent) properly installed the 4th camera in the sanctuary. This new camera is in the right hand corner of the balcony, as you look toward the chancel, and is wired in as camera B. The old camera B is now camera D and is wired to the secondary video mixer to be used for the hearing imparied during the 9:30 service. At the other services, you can use this camera D for enhanced video mixing options. Great Fun.
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Blogging Help
In response to quite a few questions about blogs; What they are?, How to use them?, etc. etc. I have added a blog help page. Hope this helps.
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Embedded Streaming Works With FireFox
Thanks to our FireFox browser users and their feedback as to bugs in my html code. The issues with playback of embedded media using FireFox have been fixed. This problems came to light after I posted the side by side comparison of video quality earlier this week. The embedded media would not play on FireFox browsers. This is now fixed.
We have one or two other places on our website where videos are embedded in the page. One that I know of is on the home page of www.asoulcafe.org. I'll fix this one when I get a chance. In the mean time, use IE to browse it.
For the geeks out there. . . It turns out that FireFox will not display RealPlayer media files unless they are streamed in the rtsp protocol, not the http protocol. This is not in the literature anywhere that I could find, but I tried it (after trying a buch of stuff that didn't work) and it works. djp
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Improved Video Broadcast Quality
One of the “regular customers” of our live webcast has asked about the possibility of improving the image quality. He has offered to pay the additional cost of the increased bandwidth that this will require ($30/mo.). So, this Sunday we will broadcast our live stream at 128 kbs instead of 56kbs as a test. Our broadband connected customers will see a significant improvement in video quality. This same improvement in quality will also translate to the recordings that are posted on our website each Sunday afternoon.
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2005 Website Statistics
The graph below shows the number of visitors to www.fpcsparta.org per month for the year 2005. The upswing beginning in August was probably due to our introduction of the audio podcasting and RSS feed which we began early in that month. The second upswing, at the beginning of November coinsides with our introduction of a second RSS feed and the video podcasts for the new Ipod-Video introduced by Apple in October. One theory as to the spike in visitors is that these .m4v files designed for the iPod-Video can be downloaded and played on any computer using Quicktime or similar playback software. This is the first time we have offered downloadable video files, prior to November, they were only available for streaming playback. Well, whatever the reason, our activity is on the rise and hit a record of nearly 7000 visitors in December. We are just getting started! DJP
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A Letter & Donation from an On-Line "Member"
This letter was received just before Christmas '05:
Dear Rev. Dr. Tom Litteer and David Pontzer (media team),
Please accept this donation of $ ____ (confidential) toward your On-Line Outreach Ministry in honor of the late Norman Lindsey. My husband, Maurice, and I were both very impressed with how you used your website's live broadcasting capabilities to allow Norman to view and be a part of his son Tim's wedding to my niece, Kristin Poots. It was one of the best uses of the internet that I have witnessed. . . .
We have also been enjoying your service every Sunday via the internet. We especially like the way you make use of technology to enhance your sermon through graphic aids. It is wonderful to know that God is on the Web, so that every eye can see and every ear can hear. may god continue to bless you and your ministry. Have a blessed Christmas season.
Susanne and Maurice Battista
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