Camera 1 knocked out by lightning, zapped all configuration parameters. Reset them, camera back in action.

on July 24, Kurt Schaberg wrote :
Hello,My name is Kurt Schaberg and I’m helping Dr. Patricia O’Brien set up her WebCT course web page.  I was told to contact you directly regarding putting video on the web page.  Dr. O’Brien would like to have all of the videos available online for the students to access [...]

Camera hit by lightning, tried to find image that showed strike

Configured image, FTP, admin settings for newest Davis center construction cam location. Reinstated cron scripts to archive images, etc. Added link from Davis Center cameras page

Web research, watch some Scala promo videos, talked to Kate to clarify options

discussed how sharing iTunes at UVM works with karl from library. He’s wondering about narrowcasting podcasts using iTunes sharing technoogy

Checked out the big screens in teh recreation center i the athletic complex. Apparenly

they contract with outside venor (Matt was going to send me the name, but didn’t)
Vendor pays them
vendor inserts ads and other content
they send content to vendor
I’m not sure what the ratio of UVM to Vendor content is
all comes down voa ethernet [...]

Took a look at the big screen near cook commons

no one sure who installed it
has a locked case for the DVD player, but o one knows where the key is
has no room for a PC. Maybe a mac Mini or laptop
has no network connection
manual?
remote control
Can’t see the connections on the back
Can’t get to the connections [...]

reviewed my own notes to prepare for Kate’s questions:
We have decided to hook up the flat screen TV in Billings to a computer. This medium will be used to "practice" for when we open the Davis Center. We spoke briefly about the various options for getting this going, and I was wondering if you might [...]

Spent some considerable time researching the question for asnider, can we convert .rm file to .mp4 files directly, with MacOSX Answer appears to be yes, with ffmpegx and some caveats (no intel mac support, as of yet).

helped faculty mlaliber with iMovie problems

I spent about 45 minutes examining this problem in the UVM library with student. Apparently the same problem exists there.
The problem videos are all RealPlayer (synonyms RealMedia, Realvideo, RealNetworks) videos. The working videos are all QuickTime videos.
Using the example "Burlington’s Sewage Treament: Part 1" from Lesson 18.2, we discovered the folowing

Works just fine using my [...]

Helped J winsted with scanning, iMovie, iDVD issues

Met with Chet of ST. Albans Extension service, talked about making movies for the web with DV camera, analog camera, Windos Moviw Maker, VirtualDub.

helped Kate debug a movie embedded in HTML page that wouldn’t play in Explorer. She has an errant space in the URL, but boy was it hard to fins