[clue-admin] Feedback from the CLUE Conference system's first run

[David L. Willson]

Sound:

Whenever the sound channel played into the room, we got some pretty bad feedback-echo-looping. I'm not sure how the sound was at the receiver end, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't disappointing whenever Dave left the podium. Maybe a wireless microphone and amplification system, with a monitor near the meeting sensors, would be a good investment?

Video:

I'm getting one of these next week: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000UY1OMY
My hope is that it will enhance the remote learning experience here at PARSEC, but maybe it could be useful to CLUE, too.
I'll let you know how mine works out. If it doesn't pan out ("pan", get it?), I'll probably return or re-sell it, and go to the HD webcam.

David L. Willson
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----- "Crawford Rainwater" <crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com> wrote:

> Folks:
> 
> Overall for a first run of the system, things seem to go well.  We did
> have some technical issues of losing the audio and video feed a few
> times from Gus, but again it was a first run.
> 
> Some comments that are being addressed:
> - The conference portion's "real estate" was too small, had to overlap
> the windows a bit.
> I have changed this out so that now the "webinar" portion will pop out
> as a separate window that is resizeable to the "viewer".
> 
> - The shared desktop was a bit laggy.
> We are looking into this, though I suspect since David A. had some
> videos (as I was informed) running that this might be what was going
> on.
> 
> - Web camera sharing for the presenter in "large screen" was better to
> follow the presenter than "small screen".
> This is where we lost some feed from Gus adjusting to see the
> differences I am told.  Thoughts on this aspect from others are
> welcomed.
> 
> - A "viewer" cannot mute from within the conference system, needs to
> be done on the viewer's main system.
> We will look into this some more.
> 
> - Recording of the presentation would be nice.
> Feature slated for v0.80 of the system.  Current v0.71 is out or
> "live".
> 
> Other thoughts, comments, feedback, questions, etc. are welcomed. 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Also to note, I get these lists in Digest format, so pardon any delays
> in advance in responding.
> 
> --- Crawford
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