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During 2013, Jisc distributed a call for proposals from UK sites who were looking to undertake some innovative projects using technolgies within the arts. Jisc selected 3 projects, and provided funding in the region of £10,000 to each project. The projects were as follows:
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A new version of LOLA has been released - LOLA v1.4.0
The new version has the following new features:
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A new version of LOLA has just been released, which I’m sure will be of interest to you all. The most significant thing is that they have been working on reducing the bandwidth needed to run LOLA. The new version - LOLA v1.3.0 has the following new features:
- new video rendering features:
- free stretch/zoom with fixed aspect ratio;
- remote video window can be duplicated and zoomed differently;
- new pixel interpolation techniques to render zoom in better quality;
- some preconfigured basic layouts for video windows;
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Here is another piece of streaming software you might be interested in - UltraGrid. This piece of software lets you stream uncompressed content from standard definition to ultra high definition in 4k.
Check out the website for more details on the software, development, specification and installation
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Conference XP is an open source platform, which provides conferencing and collaboration over IP networks. CXP is ideal for distance learning, using broadcast quality audio and video.
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Useful infomation, resources and download
Conference XP Wiki - additional information, user documents and technical documents
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DVTS:
The Digital Video Transport System (DVTS), is a free and simple piece of software which allows high quality audio and video to be streamed over IP networks. It uses 30Mbs uncompressed audio and video, and is ideal to use for distance learning such as masterclasses.
More information:
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LOLA (LOw LAtency) provides the tool for synchronous, real time performance at geographically dispersed locations. It enables remote teaching including masterclasses, and live concerts over high performance IP networks.
More information:
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For those in the education sector working with audio, EchoDamp is a freely available piece of software designed to audio mixing and echo control. Designed for both Mac and PC it aims to prevent echo without altering or limiting the audio frequency range. This allows for much better audio quality whilst using a range of software (such as DVTS, Conference XP etc).
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For all those who were unable to attend the Arts and Humanities Streaming Workshop at the Royal College of Music back in September, we have finally been able to put together some highlights of the event, available on youtube:
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And here's another piece of software! This time its for streaming high quality audio only, but can be used alongside multiple streaming software you choose for your video.
See below for some useful information on JackTrip:
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/groups/soundwire/software/jacktrip/
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