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It's about to get dark!

I Sperg

I started a zoom "film night" after Christmas with the intent of providing a safe social "venue" for people here, which until last week I delivered every week.

However, now Zoom has added a mandatory ten minute break to every 40 minutes it gives us, it's become neccesary to suspend the "service" until I can find a better way of streaming.

We tried using my discord server last week, but it was more messing about that I was willing to absorb at the time.

We've found a workaround this week for the zoom issue, (use two accounts) and log into them alternately, to get rid of the annoying break.    

My one regular "client" (the reason I didn't give it up months ago when I realised there was no real demand for it here!) expressed an interest last week in watching "Breaking Bad" and today whilst accompanying a friend to a charity shop I spied the entire box set for £3... 

Tomorrow (unless he's really keen to get started with BB)  I'll run the film scheduled for last week, "A for Andromeda" at the usual time and usual zoom address.

At some point however, "film night" is going to get dark...

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  • I’ve done streaming with Discord. It’s not so hard certainly easier than swapping between two zoom accounts. However the video quality and lag isn’t always great. Sometimes things can get quite choppy depending on the  bandwidth  and the time of day et cetera.

  • in reply to Peter

    We were plagued with feedback issues last week, which need to be worked out and resolved before I can give it a proper go. After a bad week personally I lacked the patience for the struggle. It happens.

    On zoom I seem to get better upload speeds than anyone else I know who's tried hosting a film, but it still gets problematic from time to time.

    If film night had actually taken off and was providing a service I'd have considered paying for it, to remove the breaks, but for only two of us, it seems a frivolous use of money, that I can't really afford to engage in. 

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  • in reply to Peter

    We were plagued with feedback issues last week, which need to be worked out and resolved before I can give it a proper go. After a bad week personally I lacked the patience for the struggle. It happens.

    On zoom I seem to get better upload speeds than anyone else I know who's tried hosting a film, but it still gets problematic from time to time.

    If film night had actually taken off and was providing a service I'd have considered paying for it, to remove the breaks, but for only two of us, it seems a frivolous use of money, that I can't really afford to engage in. 

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