Op-Ed: Jim Hurley: Watch Nevada County BOS Via Streaming Video

Op-Ed: Jim Hurley: Watch Nevada County BOS Via Streaming Video

Published on Jun 9, 2009 - 9:36:58 AM

June 9, 2009 - I'm so excited. It's about the new video. A second coming. No, not the High Definition TV coming this week to TV, but the second coming of Nevada County streaming video utility to allow us to view government meetings. The IT department and Granicus (a software development house in San Francisco) have corrected the problem that existed in the initial offering so that it is now accessible to us Mac users.

A couple of things to watch out for though. If you are a Mac user (the cream of Nevada County society...) you must be running OS X, and have Siverlight installed in Firefox (it crashes on Safari.) To see if Silverlight is installed in Firefox, check the "Add-ons" under the "Window" menu in Firefox.

To test this new facility, whether your work on a PC or enjoy the Macintosh environment, may I recommend you go to http://new.mynevadacounty.com/streaming/, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "video" for the May 12th meeting of the board of supervisors. When it comes up click on item 23 in the agenda. It is the presentation by Judge Tamietti. I found it inspiring.

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Comments

Jim Hurley
10 Jun 2009, 18:39

Thanks Don. I have RealPlayer. I'll give it a try.

YabaNet is good about including links to supporting web documents. Perhaps we could include snip-its of video in the future.
Jim

Don Pelton
10 Jun 2009, 16:32

Jim:

It occurs to me that my answer didn't address your question at all!

You might check out Real Player, which has an option to download whatever video you are watching live.

Don Pelton
10 Jun 2009, 16:29

Jim:

RE: Video editing software

Despite my extreme inexperience with video software, I recently excised a portion of a GV council meeting in order to post it to my Mine Talk blog here:

http://ncminetalk.blogspot.com/2009/06/steve-enos-urges-planning-commission .html

The quality in this case is so so, but here's how I did it:

I replayed -- from our Comcast DVR -- into my laptop (via a TV card) the portion of the meeting I wanted to capture. I used the software bundled with the TV card to create an mpeg file.

Then I used software (recommended by YouTube) called "AVS Video Editor" (which I bought on the Internet and downloaded for about $60) to further excise the portion of the video I wanted to keep.

Finally, I uploaded the final version of the mpeg file to YouTube, then linked to that from my blog.

For what it's worth, it looks like the AVS software has some fine capabilities I haven't learned to use yet, such a text overlay, etc.

Jim Hurley
10 Jun 2009, 15:22

Does anyone know of software that would allow me to capture segments of the county's streaming video?

Anna Haynes
10 Jun 2009, 14:42

FYI to readers, I'm told that my disabled popups was (likely?) the problem. (haven't tried enabling them yet)

Anna, ncvoices.us

Don Pelton
10 Jun 2009, 08:09

The Granicus setup is excellent. Does anyone know whether NC and GV have anything similar, or any plans to use Granicus?

Anna Haynes
09 Jun 2009, 14:29

A clarification - this allows us to watch the meetings live, or watch archived past meetings.

Thank you Jim! (and Granicus, and all others involved)

> may I recommend you...scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "video" for the May 12th meeting... click on item 23 (tamietti)

Wouldn't it be cool if they could do permalinks...
(in any case, I don't seem to be able to jump to item23 - it could well be my setup though (xp,ff,java off,no popups))