8Mar2009

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The first session started 30 mins late, in mean time Alpesh gave a brief talk about his experience with the latex and emacs editors. When Rajeev arrived he did started mounting and setting up of the cameras which he had brought with himself. After the initial setup Rajeev gave a brief overview about his session. The overview consisted as follows:

  • Broadcast conference
  • Standard cameras.
  • Demos
  • Pure streaming
  • Stream through the network using icecast server.
  • Pull in system using firewire.
  • Encoding of the raw video using oggtheora.
  • Theorur

All the above pure streaming steps using CLI

  • Access grid
  • Video streaming using access grid.
  • Various concepts in access grid like venue, nodes, screen etc.

For the demo, Rajeev installed Icecast, ffmpeg2theora, dvgrab, oggfwd and configured icecast server to send the encoded data, dvgrab to grab video from the camera, ffmpeg2theora to convert video the ogg theora format in real time and oggfwd to stream the videos real time.

Theorur The above could be done using Theorur, a GUI frontend for ogg/theora streaming.

Access grid: Rajeev, ran us through a short demo of Access Grid. Connection was done to a remote venue server but unfortunately hybrid server does not work with proxy. So, a working demo of Access Grid has been postponed for one of the future LUG meets.


After the completion of this session, it was followed up by python session by Baishampayan Ghose(GOSUB). He started off with

  • the history of python
  • the zen of python

He even did the debunking of python3 myths like

  • Issues with python 3
  • No Backward compatibility
  • New syntax

Further he covered the following:

  • Basics
  • Calculator
  • Variables and datatypes overview.
  • Simple recursion implementation (factorial calculation)
  • Object oriented concepts in python.
  • List comprehensions
  • Generators.
  • Map and reduce

After this brief overview session GOSUB gave an overview about the google appengine and followed it by a demo on how to create an application on google appengine. The deployment of this application would be done in the next mumpy session.

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