Presentations and discussions at NOSSDAV 2005 were captured for on-demand replay after the conference. You may play the material by selecting the talk on the Conference Program Web Page.
The material can be streamed using the Apple Quicktime Plugin. The material can be played at either 600 Kbs or 1.2 Mbs so it should be playable if you have a broadband connection. These web pages have been tested with the Apple Safari, Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers on Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. The material is coded with an H.264 codec which requires Quicktime 7. Apple has released a version for both Mac OSX and Windows.
If you have trouble playing these movies, consult the following HELP PAGE.
The capture and publication of this material is an experiment in low cost presentation capture. The ultimate goal is to capture all talks at SIG Multimedia (SIGMM) sponsored conferences and workshops and publish them in the ACM Digital Library.
This particular experiment cost approximately $3.5K to capture over 34 presentations and 10 Q&A panel discussions at the end of each session over two days. The experiment was funded by ACM SIGMM with generous support from SIGMM Chair Ramesh Jain.
More information on how the material was captured is presented in the paper NOSSDAV 2005 Presentation Capture that was written in February 2006. A revised version of the paper with additional statistics on usage and more discussion about various issues involving conference capture was published in the October-December 2006 issue of IEEE Multimedia. A PDF version of the paper is available on-line at IEEE Digital Library
After the paper was published we ran into more problems with the streaming media content. More details on the problem and how it was fixed is available at Quicktime Bug Fix. In addition, several people have noted that the 600 Kbs material looks better than the 1200 Kbs material. I wrote a note discussing the quality of the images in the following Image Quality Discussion note.
We have also published a slide show that presents more information about the equipment and process used.
For further information contact Larry Rowe at
rowe(at)bmrc(dot)berkeley(dot)edu.