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Howto do G8-TV

At the G8 protests 2007 in Heiligendamm, Germany and surrounding events we ran G8-TV to create an alternative news platform for video content. We decided to document how we did it, so you can set up your own Internet TV station and be the media!

  • This is a wiki that anyone can edit. So, please feel free to enhance and add things.

Technical setup

[What is connected to what and where?]

Content

[Reasons for chosen structure?]

Clips for website

[What topics? Criterias?]

Daily live show

[Coverage vs. "fun" elements?]

Clips for live show

[Differently edited as website/final version?]

Staff structure

[Who, where, when, why?]

Presenter's corner

How to prepare for a show

Translation

[Tips and tricks?]

Programs for subtitle-editing

Filming

Editing

Financing

Live stream

Software

[Which packages? Platform?]

Grab - Encode - Send to Hub-Server

Icecast Hub Server

Mirror set up how-to

Mirror bandwidth information

How to configure a cron job

Mirror List

VLC settings

Hardware

Mirroring

Finding mirrors

Setting up mirrors

Mirror status list

Personal tools