The Time-Delayed Convention
Aug. 8th, 2020 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerIt took “the anime convention I actually visited in person” launching its own online substitute to get me tuning back into live streams, but as I watched some panels from Anime North I was thinking one weekend ahead to another online convention I’d become aware of. Otakon has registered on me before, and now of course it being associated with somewhere further away doesn’t matter. Noticing there would be six simultaneous streams, though, was just a little intimidating for all that I could suppose having to pick and choose was no more and no less than anyone ever had to do in person.
It just so happened, though, that in poking away at a “package manager” that installs command-line programs for me I’d become familiar with a utility that can save streaming video to your own computer. In wondering if it could delve into the dodgier-yet territory of handling live streams I did a bit more poking and turned up another program. Schedule examined and interesting panels identified, I installed the program and decided to try a quick test of it, only to run into an error. Some hurried checking managed to pick up on a warning the program wasn’t being updated any more, but a development of it under another name was also available. This time, it worked, even if it tended to lose its connection after about an hour and required restarting.
Saving selected video streams to files seemed to preclude watching them at the same time, though, and once I had a collection of files running them through a video converter to let a standard player cut out the lead-ins and interrupted fragments took more time, such that I still have a collection of panels I’ve only just started watching. A bit influenced by what I saw at Anime North, I sampled “anime of 1990” presented by Daryl Surat, which mentioned fewer titles than the “anime of 1980” panel I’d seen before but covered them in more depth and still kept up some variety, then got around to Mike Toole’s presentation on “Korean knockoffs,” which wasn’t just about pointing out suspicious giant robot resemblances even if I kept contemplating the “Korean Godzilla” in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival. As much as I’m back to “wondering about getting to other presentations given the way I burn up my time already,” delving a bit more into online connections has stayed interesting.
It just so happened, though, that in poking away at a “package manager” that installs command-line programs for me I’d become familiar with a utility that can save streaming video to your own computer. In wondering if it could delve into the dodgier-yet territory of handling live streams I did a bit more poking and turned up another program. Schedule examined and interesting panels identified, I installed the program and decided to try a quick test of it, only to run into an error. Some hurried checking managed to pick up on a warning the program wasn’t being updated any more, but a development of it under another name was also available. This time, it worked, even if it tended to lose its connection after about an hour and required restarting.
Saving selected video streams to files seemed to preclude watching them at the same time, though, and once I had a collection of files running them through a video converter to let a standard player cut out the lead-ins and interrupted fragments took more time, such that I still have a collection of panels I’ve only just started watching. A bit influenced by what I saw at Anime North, I sampled “anime of 1990” presented by Daryl Surat, which mentioned fewer titles than the “anime of 1980” panel I’d seen before but covered them in more depth and still kept up some variety, then got around to Mike Toole’s presentation on “Korean knockoffs,” which wasn’t just about pointing out suspicious giant robot resemblances even if I kept contemplating the “Korean Godzilla” in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival. As much as I’m back to “wondering about getting to other presentations given the way I burn up my time already,” delving a bit more into online connections has stayed interesting.