Reinhard Max - Oct 12, 2004
There will be ogg/vorbis streams available from the technical sessions at the Eleventh Annual Tcl/Tk Conference. They will be up at least for the duration of the sessions (Wed-Fri, 09:00-17:00). The detailed schedule can be found here: [L1 ].
SC To find out what time that is where you are, try http://www.timeanddate.com/ [L2 ].
Here some data for some general areas of the world:
West_coast_(Vancouver): 07:00-15:00 (-02, relative to New Orleans!)
East_coast_(New_York)_: 10:00-18:00 (+01)
Europe_(Germany)______: 16:00-00:00 (+07)
Europe_(Britain)______: 15:00-23:00 (+06)
Australia_(Sydney)____: 00:00-08:00 (+17)You can tune in with any player than can play ogg/vorbis streams that come in via HTTP.
This includes:
foundation as well). - ActiveTcl on Solaris and Snack doesn't work...
There are also ogg-plugins available for other players. Please feel free to extend the list with more players you find working and with URLs to those listed.
The URLs of the streams are:
Some players want playlist URLs instead of the direct stream URLs, so if the above URLs don't work with your player although it claims to support Ogg/Vorbis, you can try one of these:
The conference streams will most likely _not_ be availabe outside of the scheduled session hours. For testing players while the conference streams are down there is a test loop available under the following URLs (depending on the client):
All listeners are invited to log into the Tcl'ers Chat for coordination and for asking questions to the speakers at the conference. There will be people in the conference room who are logged into the chat and can proxy between remote listeners and the speaker.
sheila, 10 Oct 2004: Will audio files be archived?
rmax: Yes, we will archive them at several places for redundancy and plan to make them available after the conference. So please don't open a second stream to run your own archive, as the number of slots for listeners on the servers is limited.
ak: Just did a recording of the testloop for 15 minutes as a yard stick. That was 3.75 megs. With 7 hour-days the 3 days come in at a bit less than half a CD (314.67 MB). And even recording through the 1 hour noon-break just brings us to ca. 356 MB. Still manageable.
CREDITS
Thanks to Jacob Levy, and the other owners of mod3.net for sponsoring the bandwidth for the American listeners, and to Steve Redler IV for providing the hardware that sends the upstream from the conference hotel.