| Christoph, I think the demo would be good to see. I agree with your thought there - until there is such thing as more bandwidth than we can fill up there will be sites with constraints and the ability to choose which versions of which streams (high vs low resolution/high vs low bandwidth) having those choices is a good thing. To address having multiple versions of streams and sites not having the bandwidth, break them up into different groups (multicast addresses). Say, you only want the h261 streams - that's one group. DV... HD... HDV other groups. You only "get" a group if you "connect" to it... etc. of course, then we start actually using groups! and then we're back to the issue of multicasting. That's still a problematic issue in my state, but i'm chipping away at it. With all the video being tossed around these days, i have to think even regular ISP's are thinking multicast thoughts... no? I notice this camera has, like you say, many outputs available to it. Looking forward to the Retreat - i've been encouraging attendance from those projects and group in my state, the Access Grid is becoming more "visible" and discussed as a way to enable and do collaboration but lately the ability to do HD at the same time is foremost in everyone's request. For me, besides the cost, it's the ability to just "make it work" and the realization that I'm now using projectors that are 4-5 years old and folks don't seem to understand that resolution and screen "space" are two different things. The ability to scale video to any size (and save/store those settings as well - etc) would be ideal.... i've always pointed out how flexible the AG ultimately is because it is a toolkit. -John Q. -- John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.; Louisiana State University Computer Manager LBRN; 131 Life Sciences Bldg. e-mail: johnq@xxxxxxx; web: http://lbrn.lsu.edu phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597 On Mar 8, 2007, at 10:23 PM, Christoph Willing wrote:
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