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[Nettime-bold] PLanetwork Webcast |
For Release May 11, 2000 PLANETWORK Announces Partners for "QuickTime Video Streaming" at Weekend Conference on Information Technology and Global Ecology San Francisco—The PLANETWORK team announced today four partners who will assist in producing the live ‘webcast’ version of the PLANETWORK conference this weekend at the Presidio's Golden Gate Club, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Bitmovers Networks, Sorenson Media, Terran Interactive, and Apple Computer are collaborating to provide equipment, software, and technical expertise to assist in compression and broadcast of QuickTime video and audio from the conference floor. PLANETWORK webcast director and technical advisor, James Kalin, who will also be conducting a workshop on web audio/video streaming and compression, puts it this way, "We've brought together companies and a team of experts to show off some of the best capabilities of audio and video on the web. We will be showing conference attendees precisely how to do what we're doing so they can do it themselves. The idea of PLANETWORK is to build community and begin dialogues about how we can use digital technology to support environmental work. Our video and audio efforts will illustrate a few of the many ways to do that." ‘Webcasting,’ as it is called, is a means of broadcasting, or ‘streaming,’ video and audio over the Internet. People who are not able to be physically present in San Francisco this weekend but who have Internet access will be able to sign on to http://www.planetworkers.net, log-on with an email address, and view portions of the conference in live audio and video format. Viewing the conference at this site is free. One of the Quicktime video streams will be from a camera on a Mac laptop, connected to the Internet via Apple's wireless Airport technology. This roving- cam will capture live video of what is happening on the conference floor including interviews with conference staff and attendees. Another of the streams will feature an interview room covering live on-air discussions with speakers and various media representatives from radio, television, newspaper, and online media, some from as far away as France. The third stream will feature a live mix of video from cameras in the four speaker and panel presentation rooms. QuickTime streaming video and audio live feeds will be created using Sorenson Broadcaster software from Sorenson Media, running on one laptop Mac G3 and two desktop Mac G4s. The three streams of QuickTime video originating at the San Francisco conference site will be sent to Bitmovers in Canada, who will replicate the streams as many times as needed in order to send them to multiple web viewers simultaneously. Portions of the streams will be captured and compressed locally at the conference, using Terran's Media Cleaner Pro software. PLANETWORK is still accepting registrations for the conference. For a complete listing of speakers and forums, or to register online, see the PLANETWORK website at www.planetworkers.org. Or contact PLANETWORK at 415-436-0123 (voicemail) or 415-621-7790 (fax). PLANETWORK is a project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a California 501c3 non-profit organization. For further information: Cate Gable for PLANETWORK Axioun Communications International Voice: 510-644-0193 Fax: 510-644-0194 cgable@axioun.com www.planetworkers.org www.axioun.com Jurgen Schaub for Bitmovers Networks Inc www.bitmovers.net info@bitmovers.net 604-682-3297 toll free 877 507 4562 Kevin Poulsen Marcom Manager for Sorenson Media Office: 801-287-9403 Anne Lewis For Terran Interactive 408-356-7373, xtn 226 anne@terran.com Tad Shelby for Apple Seed Programs 408-974-1068 shelby@apple.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold