Cisco telepresence video
A very large version of the Cisco press conference is now up. We’re working on a regular smaller version. Whew. Someday I might write a book on all the mistakes I’ve made editing this sucker.
In the video you’re seeing Guido Jouret, Cisco CTO explain the system to a group of journalists. I tried to zoom in on the screen so you can see the quality and low-latency. For a videoconferencing freak like me this was a real thrill cause I’ve never seen this kind of quality until now.
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October 23rd, 2006 at 12:40 pm
[...] Robert Scoble has an amazing video post of the new Cisco video conferencing up now. I really expected the bottle of water to be passed from the screen to Scoble Check out the quality on this, its amazing Technorati Tags: cisco, General, pat phelan, roam4free, scobleShare and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]
October 23rd, 2006 at 1:10 pm
cool :)
(but the sound is horrible. i had to turn the volume way down just to “bear with” it)
October 23rd, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Jonas: hmmm, sounds great on my systems here. I’ll try to do better in the future.
October 23rd, 2006 at 1:23 pm
Robert, your video is in quicktime instead of more common formats. I usually do not like to install unnecessary software but I did this time.
Now the following is FYI. Quicktime is complaining that I do not have the necessary “compressor”. I am not sure if you used any non-standard compressor and I am also not sure why do I need any compressor at all. If quicktime were complaining about a decompressor, I could have understood.
I can only play the audio. If you have your video in another format please let me know. Thanks.
October 23rd, 2006 at 1:27 pm
That is what I call impressive. Wow.
Kamal: It’s in the standard h.264 format, which seems to be emerging as the best option for HD video online.Calling it uncommon isn’t exactly fair. QuickTime 7 is quite capable of playing it without anything extra.
October 23rd, 2006 at 1:36 pm
PatrickQG, your point is taken. I wish something which could satisfy Robert’s HD requirements could ship with Windows. Here is the error (just FYI) I am getting.
You may experience problems playing a video track “Podtech-ciscofinal.mov” because the required compressor could not be found. Would you like to close or continue?
I continued but only sound.
On checking for updates, it says “Your QuickTime software is up to date.” Well, I will do what we all do in such situations. Unistall and then reinstall:)
October 23rd, 2006 at 1:37 pm
Kamal: Patrick is right. I’m using standard H.264. Quicktime on both of my machines plays it well. What version of Quicktime are you using?
I don’t yet have it in other formats. I’m hiring an editor (he starts in mid-November) so that I can do other formats, but we won’t see those start until December 1.
October 23rd, 2006 at 1:50 pm
I have version 7.1.3. Just unistalled and re-installed. The error message is gone but video still does not play. Do I need the paid pro version of quicktime?
Or may be the HD videos require some special hardware. I thought I bought my tablet (toshiba M200) with all available options two years ago.
Never mind. I will try it on some other computer. Thanks for your help though.
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:06 pm
Kamal: nope, it should run on the current version. I have a Tablet PC that’s slower than that.
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Cisco TelePresence Meeting Solution
After seeing Cisco’s new TelePresence in action via Robert Scoble’s PodTech video, all I can say is WOW! The Cisco TelePresence Meeting Solution takes live, face-to-face video conferencing over an Internet Protocol (IP) network to a whole new level. …
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:37 pm
OK, so you have like a million video posting websites but you decide to just post a 300 Mb quicktime one a server with slow tubes?
Nice one.
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Michiel: we’re distributed by Akamai which distributes all those others too. It came down within minutes here (I’m at SAP Labs).
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:42 pm
A smaller version is up here: http://www.podtech.net/home/technology/1351/cisco-makes-videoconferencing-cool-with-new-telepresence-systems
October 23rd, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Robert, speaking of cool interactive video stuff:
Irina will be on the live, interactive, weekly web video show, Reinventing Television, Live, Thurs, Oct 26 7PM Pacific to talk about the vloggies,
and answer viewer questions. Also on the show will be vloggers from the groundbreaking vlog, Alive in Baghdad.
http://reinventingtv.phovi.com/2006/10/23/this-week-alive-in-baghdad-plus-irina-talks-vloggies/
October 24th, 2006 at 9:23 am
[...] Read more about it and grab the video press conference/demo from Robert Scoble’s blog. [...]
October 24th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
What a stunning device. They should play up the green angle too, since while it might use a KW or two of electricity, that pales in comparison to the thousands of gallons of jet fuel being wasted by executives flying to and fro every other day (a typical corporate jet takes about 2500 gallons flying coast to coast, throwing an ungodly amount of carbon into the air).
Cross off another Star Trek innovation from the list. I want my transporter Real Soon Now.