Stanford September Todo

Machine Prep

Set up files for presentations on Jon's laptop

Install PC Anywhere on Aaron and Jon's laptops

Install the camera control software from: http://www.gigascale.org/video/canon/VCC3CTRL.EXE onto Aaron's laptop

Set up the gsrc account with icons and start menu entries for the following items where appropriate

Netshow Encoder
Winnov video capture
Powerpoint 97
Canon Video Controller

Set up dummy directories: c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\gsrc\\talks\\1999\\stanford_sep

URL to use would be: http://10.0.0.1/gsrc/talks/1999/stanford_sep/talk_number, where talk_number is 01, 02 etc.

Setup encoder laptops with scripts and directories, see the Netshow page

To bring

Overhead projector

LCD projector

Tripods

To buy

CD Wallet

Long VGA Cable

Cat 5 couplers

Two camera tripods

Half the fun is getting there

We have a full size car rented from Avis on Oxford. Pickup will be noon on Thursday, drop off, by noon on Sunday. Confirmation number: 1097 066 US0
Get directions
Directions to Stanford itself

From Highway 101 North & South: Take the Embarcadero Road exit west toward Stanford. At El Camino Real, Embarcadero turns into Galvez Road as it enters the university. Stay in the left lane and continue toward the center of campus. There is metered parking in a lot on the right side Galvez Street, just past Memorial Way. A few hundred feet beyond this lot, Galvez ends at Serra Street, where there is more metered parking. The visitor information center is in Memorial Hall, which is across from Hoover Tower on Serra Street.
From El Camino Real:
Exit El Camino Real at University Avenue. Turn toward the hills (away from the center of Palo Alto). As you enter Stanford, University Avenue becomes Palm Drive . Go through one traffic light, and turn left onto Campus Drive at the first stop sign. Turn right at Galvez Street, the next stop sign. There is metered parking in the lot between Memorial Hall and the Economics building. The Visitor Center is in the front of Memorial Hall. Please note that parking is monitored Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Get Parking Permit: email Jill

Stanford

Stanford Contact: Kathi DiTomassi

Kathleen H. DiTommaso
Administrative Associate for:
Professor Giovanni De Micheli
Professor Terry Winograd

Gates Computer Science, 3A-331
Stanford University
Stanford, CA.   94305-9030
650-725-3651
650-725-9802 Fax

Need to pick up key from Kathi DiTomassi
Check that we can have access to the room starting at 2pm
We need to get into the room at 6:30 am on Fri. and Sat.
Jill writes:
I went down to Stanford yesterday to check out the meeting space. The main meeting will be in an auditorium...it's small only holds 95 people. There is an un-equipped recording booth set up in the back of the room. Stadium-style seating down to the front. The lecture area isn't very big...but it should do. It's a brandnew space. There is an internet port in the room...we need to bring our own computer...and our own LCD. They're working on getting a phoneline in there, too....we might need a _long_ phone cord/wire. You'll be able to get in to the room the night before (Kathi DiTomassi will be getting a key for access...the building is locked between 5pm and 8am).

Different wireless mouse that does not need a desk
Figure out camera presets, buy software, find manuals
Get dinner speaker slides
Announce slide details

Conference Call

Send phone down with Jill
Need long phone cord.
The phone number in the conference room 650-724-3420

Dinner

Maddalena's, 544 Emerson Street. Drive NE on University, 2 R after Alma.

Need overhead projector

Need to contact speaker.

Jill writes:

The GSRC dinner on September 24 is going to be at Maddalena's, 544 Emerson Street in Palo Alto. They can provide a projection screen but don't have an overhead projector...we'll need to bring one. Richard said you have one. I also let them know we'd need access to a couple outlets for your video equipment, too. I forgot to look for that when I visited the site...hopefully won't be too big of a deal. Anything else I should check into? Do you need any other information from me for the actual meeting site? I'm still waiting to hear from Kathi DiTomassi whether or not they can put a table in the back of the auditorium for your equipment...there isn't a lot of space back there...there is the projection room though...hopefully you can use that, too.

Post Stanford Cleanup

Copy ppt and asf files to gigavault.
Richard's afternoon talks is in two pieces, and we missed a few slides. It looks like we can build a .asx file that will combine the two .asf files. In Start->NetShow Services->NetShow Documentation-ASX Metafile Referene->Using ASX Files for Seamless Stream Switching says

You can use ASX files to seamlessly switch between streams, or pieces of media content, by using the Event element in an ASX file in combination with OpenEvent script commands from the encoder. Normally, when a piece of content ends, buffering occurs for the next clip or stream before it opens (if it is content received from streaming media server). NetShow Streaming Media services features allow you to eliminate this buffering time and have another piece of streamed content begin playing nearly immediately. Seamless stream switching can only be implemented through the use of ASX files to access media content. The ASX file used must contain an Event element that defines a link to another piece of media content using an Entry element. The Event element must have a Name attribute, which is used to identify the particular script command that comes form the encoder in the form Event eventname. When the script command of type Event is created or defined in the encoder, the parameter for the Event is the name defined in the ASX metafile.
In order for seamless stream switching to take place, you must send a script command of type OpenEvent with the name of the event as defined in the Event element in the ASX file. In the encoder you send a script command in the stream in the format OpenEvent eventname. When Microsoft Windows Media Player receives a script command from the encoder of type OpenEvent, it looks to the Event element in the ASX file and begins opening the piece of media content defined in the Event element. The player then holds this information until the actual event of the same name, in the format Event eventname is received. When the named event is received, the player seamlessly switches to that piece of media content, because it has already been opened and buffered.
For more information on using script commands, please see the Netshow Tools documentation.
The mkasx script could be modified to build the proper .asx file
The following .asf files need to be moved to their proper directories: 01a.asf, 06a.asf, 06b.asf
Each ASF File needs to be properly truncated at the beginning. I usually used the NetShow ASF Indexer to do this.
Sometimes each ASF File needs to have the URL to the initial slide added at the start of the now truncated clip. Again, the NetShow ASD Indexer is used.
For each presentation, generate slide GIFS, save as HTML and generate PDFs. Generating PDF requires Adobe Acrobat, which we have on order, but in the short term can be installed from a Framemaker CD
Edit the following files:

mkallasx.sh
Add each talk to this file
mkasx.sh
hange the paths from the previous workshop to the current workshop, and update the title.
lib/footer.htm
Update the name of the workshop
Run make
Check the files. If we use Powerpoint 2k to generate the HTML, pay particular attention to the dhtml that is generated and look for bogus output.
Check out why the encoder laptop was crashing.

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