18:15:36 #startmeeting 18:15:36 Meeting started Tue Apr 19 18:15:36 2016 UTC. The chair is tumbleweed. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 18:15:36 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #help #info #idea #link #topic. 18:15:40 Agenda: 18:15:43 https://pad.riseup.net/p/dc-video 18:15:54 #topic review of previous action items 18:15:57 highvoltage: around? 18:16:14 AFAIK he told me he'd do all that stuff next week 18:16:35 #info highvoltage will get to his itmes in the next week 18:16:36 I can do the follow up with him 18:16:44 pollo: your items? 18:17:04 I meant #action pollo to make sure highvoltage does his stuff 18:17:22 #action pollo to make sure highvoltage does his stuff 18:17:25 :p 18:17:35 so my items now 18:17:43 yes 18:17:57 Well for Vienna, I think I patched a few things, but since I'm not going I fell I can't do much more 18:18:11 olasd will go and is ready to ship stuff to Vienna 18:18:26 tumbleweed need to send him a final list of HW though 18:18:37 I did that 18:18:42 and he repacked 18:18:48 well, all is good for Vienna then 18:19:01 #info The 7 boxes will ship this afternoon and should arrive by the end of day Friday. 18:19:22 tracking shows they've been picked up 18:19:23 for shipping to CPT, everything is on the right track, we just need to discuss final HW list later in the meeting 18:19:50 as for renting cameras, I did some researches and ping ppl in the #voctomix channel 18:19:54 pollo: /me working on list 18:20:18 RattusRattus: you mean things to ship? 18:20:23 yes 18:20:39 I proposed a camera model for the voctomix room on the ML and I would like to talk about it later in the meeting 18:21:02 and finally we have a meeting now so I did my "calling a meeting" job :D 18:22:25 tumbleweed, your items? 18:22:46 whee. I'm now in 3 conversations besides this meeting :P 18:23:06 I think I asked ginngs, but can't actually remember 18:23:21 as to the rest of the items, they're all long-ish-term TODOs 18:23:36 on #debconf-team he said he'd look but nothing more 18:23:41 I bought some more opsis support hardware (power supplies etc), and asked the DPL for a reimbursment 18:23:52 but then he stopped being DPL, so nothing happening there 18:24:04 and got the vienna list done 18:24:10 and wouter is still missing 18:24:17 :( 18:24:20 #topic Vienna mini-DC 18:24:36 is there anything else that we need to do for this? 18:24:49 a few things I can think of: 18:25:12 set up a veyepar / ccc video processing thing to do the transcoding 18:25:32 set up streaming (can happen on-site) 18:25:39 figure out who the volunteers are (can happen on-site) 18:26:28 anything else? 18:26:35 anyone want to handle the video processing side? 18:26:49 for the video processing, I think the best would be using the CCC software 18:27:06 #info http://tiago.acaia.ca/tags/ccc/ is a nice guide to setting up CCC reviewing software 18:27:46 as for _doing_ it, I think it's best if someone who goes to Vienna does it 18:27:49 except nobody on site will have any experience in it 18:27:55 indeed 18:28:03 so, that isn't something to do in a rush 18:29:05 wouter & CarlFK have some experience with veyepar 18:29:28 CCC reviewing software scares me ;) 18:29:30 * tumbleweed does too, peripherally 18:29:43 I mean, I did half the veyepar setup for dc15 18:29:51 and hang around with CarlFK too much :P 18:29:54 mainly the file system driver thing... 18:29:57 but then again, if something crashes badly during the conf, having someone there able to fix shit up is important 18:30:41 still, if somebody wants to use the CCC thing in CPT, nows the time to learn about it :) 18:30:51 I had planned to try setting up the CCC software eventually 18:31:28 I'm (finally) going to have some free time after Thursday 18:32:19 vocto could use some packaging love 18:32:49 right now the docs say "cd ~/voctomix .... 18:33:02 https://github.com/voc/voctomix/issues/13 18:33:23 woot 18:33:37 seems like we are drifting off topic 18:33:41 but ppl from vocto said **they** wouldn't do it 18:34:08 that's fair enough 18:34:29 if no one wants to do the reviewing software for Vienna, I guess the only option is a shout out on the ML 18:34:40 but I don't think that will work 18:34:45 action you? 18:35:02 I can #action it, but I'm 90% sure it'll fail 18:35:28 #action pollo to prod about setting up reviewing for vienna-mini-dc 18:35:38 #topic voctomix report 18:35:42 CarlFK: all yours :) 18:36:02 sure - let me repost for the record 18:36:13 I have a factoid to report: I used Vocto in production, it worked. 18:36:54 vocto core and gui running on an 2nd gen i3 18:37:17 same box, video camera 720p hdmi -> hdmi2usb -> desktop -> localhost -> vocto core 18:37:32 presenter's laptop into an hdmi2usb muxed with usb audio from the sound board -> laptop -> eithernet -> cat5 -> vocto core 18:38:25 used veyepar for post 18:38:53 any sound lag? 18:38:56 I think I am done with DVswitch forever 18:38:59 no lag 18:39:01 heh 18:39:02 er 18:39:13 what vocto were you running? on what ubuntu? 18:39:13 no sync issues 18:39:24 vocto master on ubuntu wily 18:40:03 there is a little more latency than dvsitch, but once I started using it, turns out not to be an issue - I didn't notice it at all 18:40:22 CarlFK: just to be clear here. there was no sound sync issue with the video, and no soud lag to the PA system? 18:40:46 RattusRattus: well, the sound to the PA system wasn't going thorugh any computers 18:40:47 RattusRattus: no sync issues 18:41:06 :-) great 18:41:30 if you put one ear to vocto.. oh right.. vocto has audio monitoring! 18:41:35 tumbleweed: ok so not running sound over cat5 from front to back of room (phew) 18:41:59 yeah, I'm presuming not 18:42:11 if you put one ear to head phone coming out of voco's UI and one ot the PA, you hear an echo 18:42:48 CarlFK: thats fine! just as long as syc audio with video feed :-) 18:42:53 but that would have been the same with DVswtich if it had that feature 18:43:19 heh, so at least we know it's feasible 18:43:42 my concern is differant camera / grabbers in same room will have quite a differant latancy 18:43:43 move on? 18:43:45 CarlFK: will you be there at DC16? 18:44:17 pollo: I don't plan on being at dc16 18:44:18 not unless we kidnap him 18:44:42 so #action pollo will kidnap CarlFK ;D 18:44:46 lol 18:44:47 i think we can move on 18:44:51 wait... 18:45:08 you plan on using bm card to captture sdi in the 3rd room, right ? 18:45:24 next topic is -- Hardware for the voctomix room -- 18:45:25 :D 18:45:43 #topic Hardware for the voctomix room 18:45:48 I would like to know soon what the plan is and i will purchase the same for myself 18:46:13 on the ML i proposed to use this camera model: http://pro-av.panasonic.net/en/sales_o/broch_pdf/ag-ac160_130.pdf 18:46:15 yes, I think that's our plan 18:46:35 It does support firewire and USB 2.0, so I guess it could work out with both setups (DVswitch & voctomix( 18:46:46 and HDMI 18:46:49 I hate to sound like a broken record 18:46:56 but it doesn't havet o have firewire to work with dvswitch 18:47:01 it does make things easier, though :) 18:47:06 o0 18:47:18 so what HW _do_ we need? 18:47:19 you can make anything work with a bit of gstreamer glue 18:47:24 I've said this a zillion times 18:47:29 damn 18:47:53 anyway, if it's easier and we can find one of these, it'll be an easier setup 18:48:03 yep, that's very much like our current big cameras 18:48:19 but smaller? 18:48:27 pretty much the same size 18:48:47 as for the capture cards, I have NO idea what we should look into 18:48:53 err does that even have firewire? 18:49:06 ah, there it is, under other 18:49:26 guys - are we hiring or buying this? 18:49:33 hiring i think 18:49:36 good. 18:49:46 if it works well we can look into buying, but after DC16 :D 18:50:09 that said, we don't even know if there's one in ZA :P 18:50:11 no after DC16 we need to look at using SDI as transport first.... 18:50:56 #info preferred camera model ag-ac160_130 18:51:07 * RattusRattus looks 18:51:23 anyone knows about the capture cards they use at CCC? I heard around "blackmagic cards" but /me has no experience with these kind of things 18:51:47 pollo not cards - they are external boxes 18:51:59 blackmagic do make cards though 18:52:12 h01ger: ? 18:52:39 https://c3voc.de/wiki/hardware:encoder looks like they use PCI cards 18:52:54 RattusRattus: you seem enabled with video. Could you look into capture? 18:52:55 +1 for the ag-ac160_130 cameras 18:53:27 we'll use a desktop in the voctomix room 18:54:24 ok will have a chat with tumbleweed after this meeting re HW setup 18:54:53 :D 18:55:19 * RattusRattus doesn't know if he is going to DC16 yet (nothing heard back for travel/accomadation bersary) 18:55:28 RattusRattus: that'll take about a month 18:55:52 RattusRattus: but I think we can guarantee core video people bursaries :P 18:55:55 until then I can't commit... 18:56:54 yeah, same for I but I'm pretty sure I'll get my travel funds 18:57:22 seriously, if the bursaries team were to not fund you two, we'd find budget to elsewhere 18:57:31 it's worth it, for having video 18:57:45 ok, can you #action RattusRattus about capture? 18:57:55 we could move on :D 18:58:06 #action RattusRattus to talk to tumbleweed after this meeting re HW setup 18:58:20 #topic Hardware we need to ship from IRILL 18:58:24 fine. 18:59:01 https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DC16EquipmentList << Start of kit list per room 18:59:02 so what is the deal with the HP laptops 18:59:10 do we have 5 or 4 18:59:17 did we ever had 5? 18:59:26 4 18:59:29 once upon a time we had 6 18:59:34 clearly we've had 4 for a while 18:59:41 pollo: we did have 6, we knew we were down to 5, but now its 4 18:59:41 ok, nice 19:00:06 it seems we had 4 at dc15 too, and forgot about that 19:00:07 so we need HP Eleite books for DV Switch 19:00:43 but seemed ok with the DV cards for audiance camera 19:01:06 atm I told olads we needed only very few things from IRILL 19:01:24 the HP laptops, the cameras, some cables 19:01:37 sound desks? 19:01:40 mics 19:01:43 get locally 19:01:46 good 19:01:46 we don't have enough mics anyway 19:01:49 ack 19:01:55 and shipping miles of coax cable around is just silly 19:02:00 (if we have you to solder more :P ) 19:02:01 indeed 19:02:12 do we need stands for the cameras? 19:02:25 the big cameras yes 19:02:30 probably hireable locally 19:02:41 but we haven't found anyone to lease us anything,yet 19:02:42 small cameras just buy cheep tripod local 19:03:08 (<$30) 19:03:12 RattusRattus: so do you want us to ship the bigger tripod? 19:03:31 I'm pretty sure it'll be cheaper to rent that locally too 19:03:51 yes we should unless you can find local 19:04:20 so, we have to up our game, locally 19:04:21 pollo: rental is not cheep. normaly 3 weeks rental is cost of the kit new 19:04:38 will go through kit list with tumbleweed after this meeting 19:04:41 and we're looing at 2 weeks... 19:04:42 ok, so I'll check next week with highvoltage next week for local s-tuff 19:05:11 and follow up with olasd for IRILL shipping 19:05:14 do we know the "should be shipped by this date" date for Paris to CT ? 19:05:47 I think we agreed stuff should be in CPT early june 19:05:50 ummm is anyone cosy with the Uni's AV team? if not we should be 19:06:08 RattusRattus: so, a few experiences with the university AV 19:06:20 PA systems and recording lectures is handled by the IT department 19:06:29 who are as knuckleheaded as any university IT department 19:06:46 they're going to have the cheapest nastiest equipment available, and charge a fortune for it 19:06:51 so do they run an AV course? if so they will have cameras, tripods, sound desks 19:07:19 there is a little AV group attached to the drama department, that I've borrowed DV cameras from, years and years ago 19:07:32 yes they are probably the right people 19:07:36 probably too small for us, but they have a good set of wireless mics (for theatre productions) and such 19:07:41 I'd start with them 19:08:12 if they have Radio corse (even a student radio station...) 19:08:13 imho it's easier to rent all the things we need at the same place 19:08:17 and there is an AV college that in the same business park as my office in CPT that I can talk to 19:08:57 pollo: theoretically, yes. But then we may be paying professional rates for everything 19:08:58 pollo: indeed, but the kit we need isn't gonna be std room AV 19:09:01 pollo: but I'd start with that 19:09:02 tumbleweed: where did the tripods for PyConZA come from? 19:09:07 we have 5K USD budget and can use it if it frees us some time do to more pressing matters 19:09:24 CarlFK: I have no recollection 19:09:30 Just FYI: 5 boxes totalling 50 kg air freight Paris -> Cape Town 362 EUR via InterConsol (ZA Airlines) 19:09:47 lol, that's about the same as shipping to vienna 19:09:49 that's good 19:10:15 probably the same cost for the return but we could go sea freight then which is probably marginally cheaper (<=20%) 19:10:19 FYI miniconf UK shipping was 80kg 19:11:35 I can ask around in the local film industry cicles, for cheap hiring 19:11:40 * tumbleweed knows some camera people 19:12:49 http://www.rent-a-cam.co.za/products.htm lists 800 ZAR for a camera + tripod /day 19:13:04 pretty sure just the tripod with be a tenth of that 19:13:17 such pricing is really aimed at 1 day shoots not 2 week conferences 19:13:32 they would charge us more? 19:13:37 seems wicked 19:13:53 no, I mean, the price is exhorbatant if you're renting it for a long time 19:14:07 their pricing isn't aimed at our market 19:14:16 50 EUR / day is ~ 800 ZAR / day 19:14:26 or 56 USD / day 19:14:58 for ZAR 8000 (assuming a 10 day hire) I'm sure we can buy some nice tripods 19:15:17 but what we'll we do with these tripods after the conf? 19:15:26 we _have_ tripods 19:15:33 just far away 19:15:44 oh, actually those go for around 50k ZAR, never mind :) 19:15:47 cost of main tripod is anout $300 USD 19:15:55 about 19:16:04 still there are reasonable ones for under 10k 19:16:25 http://www.pricecheck.co.za/offers/79296720/Manfrotto+MVH500AH+Video+Fluid+Head+%26+755XB+Aluminium+Tripod+with+Carry+Bag+Kit?sst=manfrotto&ssp=26&sso=1&rc=default 19:16:44 we're going OT 19:16:48 any actions here? 19:16:57 we need people to do research before we can really make decisions 19:16:59 http://www.bidorbuy.co.za <- buy what you need over the next months 19:17:03 much cheaper... 19:17:23 I can look into how much shipping EVERYTHING (DC15 like) to CPT will cost 19:17:24 http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/964122-REG/blackmagic_design_decklink_mini_recorder.html 19:17:46 and then we can decide if we go local or not 19:17:46 that is what CCC uses - I am ordering two now 19:17:55 CarlFK: not multi-input cards? 19:18:04 or do they do one card per camera? 19:18:14 pollo: probably 3-4x the above quote (as it's 14 or so boxes and I calc'd 5) 19:18:46 tumbleweed: "can someone point to where I can buy whatever capture care you use?" ) MaZderMind: CarlFK: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&client=ubuntu#q=decklink+mini+recorder&tbm=shop 19:20:05 I could buy a couple of those for debconf, if we want. But I'm leaving next week, so it'd be buy today 19:20:51 all right then, tumbleweed and RattusRattus will work on the HW we need and with this I'll look with highvoltage what we can rent/buy locally 19:21:00 http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/215231567/Blackmagic_Design_DeckLink_Mini_Recorder.html 19:21:05 also available in ZA 19:21:14 $130 each. I hear plenty of good stuff about them from ccc, xfxf, daven, DanD of melt and dvgrab fame, so easy to say yes. 19:21:57 CarlFK: they don't need non-free drivers? 19:22:18 pollo: I think they need blobs 19:22:25 DLange: 50% more than in the US, but that's not a big deal 19:22:31 there are 'lobbed over the wall' linux binaries 19:23:09 #action tumbleweed and RattusRattus will work on the HW we need 19:23:21 #action pollo and highvoltage will see what they can rent/buy locally 19:23:24 :D 19:23:40 pollo/highvoltage: I can try dig out contacts, prod me 19:23:45 are we done? 19:23:46 sure 19:23:49 sure 19:23:50 I guess so 19:24:00 o wait 19:24:01 #endmeeting