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NEWS: Anime Con in the News Over Open Source Project




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marie-antoinette



Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:08 pm Reply with quote
Wow, that sounds rather useful. Though there are downsides with anime not being scheduled for specific times, which means some people may not get a chance to watch what they want to see because they didn't know when it would be shown. But it really is an interesting idea.
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m5l111



Joined: 22 Jul 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 2:09 pm Reply with quote
Maybe anime expo could look into this and see if they can use this system next year.It could save them time and money .Plus the volunteers could be shifted to other duties besides being in the video rooms. Something to consider at least.
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Nekotaku



Joined: 23 Nov 2005
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:25 am Reply with quote
Heh. UK anime cons have had a similar system to this for the past several years. It's called AEGIS and plays back digital video according to a predetermined running schedule, including automatically fitting AMV's, adverts etc into the gaps between programmes.

At AyaCon 2005, the whole system was controlled remotely from a single location in the operations room, streaming video across the building's CAT5 network to remote modified VLC clients running on Mac Minis. No runs of coax cable required (ick :-p).

AEGIS was developed by Ben Carter and Peter Chan.
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danj2k



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 3:40 pm Reply with quote
Heh, looks like this story just hit Slashdot, though they didn't link here. I was actually searching for information about AEGIS on the net but couldn't find anything that wasn't related to Gatekeepers or Gundam other than this page. Does the AEGIS project have a website?
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Hunter Sopko



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:56 pm Reply with quote
marie-antoinette wrote:
Wow, that sounds rather useful. Though there are downsides with anime not being scheduled for specific times, which means some people may not get a chance to watch what they want to see because they didn't know when it would be shown. But it really is an interesting idea.


I've gone to MetroCon for the past few years, and here is how it works:

There are 3-4 video rooms that are on a schedule. The projectors in these rooms are tied into the network and show what they're supposed to on those scheduled times automatically, no person needed to run it unless there are technical problems. Standard convention video room setup, just no one required to run it.

1 video room is ad-hoc, consisting of several TVs tied to the network where people can just wander in, grab an open one and select whatever they want to watch that is on the network. It's a great system.
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