Internet Streaming: How to do it/set it up?

[Quyen]

Could someone tell me here or point me to a Web site/document on instructions for Internet streaming of realtime/text? I would like to learn how to do this and have some questions.

1) Do I need special software?

2) Do I need to have my own mobile wireless Internet, or could I rely on using the law firm's wi-fi?

3) Could text streaming only be done with LiveNote, or could it be done with Eclipse and Bridge?

If my questions don't even make sense, it's because I have no idea what I'm talking about. Basically, I just would like to learn how to do Internet streaming.

More specifically and immediately, I need to know how to do text streaming by next Tuesday!!!

Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[Quyen]

Judy, as luck would have it, the job cancelled as I was putting my equipment into my car, getting ready to leave for the job. The parties had settled late in the evening prior. But it's not a total loss . . . I'm now ready for the next streaming job. I wanted to learn to stream sooner or later, and sooner is better. I could probably even walk you through it now. ;)

So I was all dressed up with nowhere to go. Wound up picking up a great last-minute job. All in all, still a good day! :)

[Judy]

I agree, not a total loss.  You picked up a new skill to market yourself, so all is good.  And I might take you up on teaching me.

[Quyen]

I'll be happy to show you, Judy.  Just shoot me an e-mail when you're ready, and I will call you or you can call me.

[Judy]

 

I'm actually considering taking the LiveNote CLR training (even though I'm not a big LN supporter) and part of the day is devoted to setting up streaming. 

[Quyen]

Call me a cheapskate, but I didn't want to pay for a class if I could learn to do it for free, although I had given thought to the CLR class in the past.  Yeah, it's a write-off and whatever, but that's a really nice pair of shoes or a new outfit I could buy for the price of the class. Yes, I'm shallow like that. :D

Besides, no one (CR firms/clients) cares if we're "certified" to do it or not. I've yet to have a firm ask me if I'm "certified" to do realtime or LiveNote.  As long as we are [cap]able to set it up and the client is happy, that's all they really care about. If you have your own system, troubleshooting is easy.

Are you doing wired or wireless realtime, i.e., StenoCast or some such?

[Janet]

 

I took the CLR course years ago.  At the time, they spent more time going through the functions in LiveNote, marking, annotating, etc., than they did on the actual hookups.  They were supposed to cover streaming, which was fairly new at the time.  They ran out of time and never got to it.   I have rarely had lawyers request a CLR.   The one benefit I see to having it now is that all CLRs receive five free licenses for the latest version of LiveNote to load on loaner laptops.  No tokens are required.  

[Judy]

I couldn't care less about the CLR designation.  That's useless as far as I'm concerned, but I would like five tokenless licenses.  

A couple months ago I had an attorney INSIST that he use his computer with LN.  I had three laptops loaded with Bridge ready to go when he entered the room, but he wanted nothing to do with them.  He walked in at the last minute (of course) and said, go ahead and get started, I know what I'm doing, I've done this lots of times.  I tossed him a Red dongle, swore in the witness, and of course he had issues -- and this is while I'm writing an expert doctor! -- and so then I tossed him a cord and even that didn't work. He's sitting there mouthing to me, what system are you on?  Baud rate?  Blah, blah, blah.  PITA.  Never did get him connected.

I had played around with my system the weekend before with an older version of LN on one of my computers and it worked fine.  I had no idea what issue he was having, but he clearly was not happy and made sure I knew it.  I was a captive audience to his ranting for at least 10 minutes. 

At the end of the depo he says, you're not going to charge me for a connection.  I said of course not.  Then he says, every other time they can't get hooked up, the reporter charges me.

Ahhh, this has happened to him before.  I wanted to scream at him, then why didn't you get to the depo at least 10-15 minutes early so we could troubleshoot it?  Why did you let us start and then make the first two hours an absolute misery for me?   

I don't want that happening again.  I figure if I take their course I might learn something, plus get five licenses.

And once I read about them going over streaming, my only issue is do I go to San Fran next month and make a mini vacation out of it, or wait an additional month until they come to Orange County.

[Quyen]

I didn't know that the CLR comes with five free licenses. Does that mean that the LiveNote RT sessions don't have to be scheduled with LN? I haven't had to use LN yet, so I'm not sure how that works. The licenses that we get to put on the loaner laptops, what happens if we have to replace one or all of the laptops? Are the licenses transferable? I might be tempted to trade in a new pair of shoes/outfit for five LN licenses.

Oh, and your attorney probably couldn't get it to work because he didn't know your COM port number . . . unless you told him what it was on your computer. But, of course, it was all YOUR fault that he came in late and couldn't get it to work.  Pfffft.

Judy, if you decide to come up to SF to take the class, let me know; I might take it too. It'd be nice to meet you in person.

[Janet]

 

The five free licenses are for the local LiveNote software that you'd load on each of your netbooks.  You don't have to schedule anything with LiveNote to use that.  You just hook up and go.    I would imagine they'd let you transfer if you replaced a computer, but I haven't checked with them about that.

 

You do have to schedule a session with LiveNote if you're streaming with Stream Manager.  

[Quyen]

I like the "just hook[ing] up and go" part; that in itself would be worth taking the CLR just to have that option for THOSE types. ;)

[Judy]

Ugh, "those types."

So far it looks like it's going to be Orange County.  My husband was willing to go to San Fran if there were any good music shows going on that weekend, but we're not finding anything right now.

[Janet]

 

Quyen, the COM port doesn't have to match what is on the court reporter's sending computer.  You check in Device Manager on the receiving laptop what COM port number the receiving computer has assigned to the port you're receiving the feed into.  I think the confusion came from the wording in the Stream Manager configuration window.