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Almost Youtube Pick: ODTV.me
Jan 12th
For those who are interested in Leo Laporte’s TWiT Shows will know that there is a line up of content only broadcast live: ie you cannot subscribe in iTunes, you can only see them at TWiT Live. For this reason a TWiT Army member has created the website ODTV.me. Fellow viewers record the stream, upload it to this website, and allow others to watch shows such as: Ray Maxwell’s “Maxwell’s House” on color, photography, and such (he was frequently on The Lab With Leo in Canada and Australia). Ryan Shrout’s PC Perspective video show with Leo, Ryan is the founder of PCPer.com, every Thursday Leo and Ryan meet to discus the week in PC hardware news and reviews. You can see these on Thursdays live, or thanks to ODTV.me, anytime you like.
**NOTE you can also download the live-recordings of shows which are published as podcasts.
This Week: January 12
Jan 11th
This week I have many projects which will be finished and released here.
- The first of these is my review of the TELUS LG KEYBO aka LG enV2 phone (in video): I wanted to get to know this phone.
- I also am working on a page to view the TWiT Army and eventually TWiT.im river stream and TWiT Live video stream on one page.
- Finally, my long-term test of the (first-generation) iPod Touch.. 8 months in.
Happy new year as I welcome you all to come back to blogging for the long winter ahead.
Youtube: Youtube Three Years Ago… 2005
Dec 29th
I saw this on Amber Mac’s blog (Amber a well known Canadian tech-journalist)… she reviewed Youtube in 2005–on Call For Help Canada. Interesting how far it’s come… note that Youtube is now in 720p HD.
Ustream.tv vs. Stickam
Oct 23rd
In the past two years it’s become increasingly easier to stream live video across the internet. Two of the major services are Ustream.tv and Stickam. Previously both offered about equal quality, about equal bandwidth per user, and about the same functional features (including online recording). Earlier this year Leo Laporte began a streaming operation using a Tricaster, a T1, and a Stickam account. This is a live show-almost 8 hours five days a week (with reruns overnight) streaming of the behind the scenes of the creation of his netcasts for TWiT.tv. After a contract with Stickam, Leo was able to make the video 16:9 output, higher quality, and can stream video right into their servers. The product he uses is “Flash Media Encoder” which is an optimized version of the encoder you would use for any of the flash streaming services. Until now this was available to only exclusive partners of these services-but now, UStream.tv allows all of their useres access to this technology. You download/instal FME (Flash Media Encoder) onto your system (Windows only, Macs can use it only via BootCamp), download the XML configuration from UStream.tv, and go live. This option gives you FAR better quality. Again, this is only going to provide higher quality if you have a higher-end live system including a dedicated machine for encoding, a DV, camcorder (no USB webcams (period)), good lighting, good microphone, content worth watching.
You can read more at UStream.tv’s page about this here. As per the Stickam vs UStream.tv debate-UStream.tv is currently ahead, way ahead (for now).
Links:
Leo Laporte
Tricaster Demo
Aug 29th
As you know, recent technological advancements are bringing what was previously greatly expensive to consumer-cost products. The Tricaster (known to be used by Leo Laporte for TWiTLive) is a recent development allowing the same capabilities of a production truck in a back-pack sized box. The tricaster retails from ~$5000 to ~$12000.
