Streaming the Inauguration In a School?

Anonymous Teacher writes "I work in a small school in Washington and we are trying to prepare a way to watch the inauguration in 20 classrooms over a 1.5 T1. As our bandwidth severely limits the ability to individually stream to these rooms, is there an alternative to presenting it to the students? Are there any sites that offer a downloadable copy of the video quickly after the event that can be hosted locally or is reconfiguring the computers to use a proxy server the best solution?"

Re:TV

[Ecuador]

What is this "TV" you speak of?
And does it run Linux?

Odd

[WindBourne]

I keep trying to get that to work on my system. Where in KDE can I start this and make it work? Otherwise, I will stick with VLC.

Here's an idea

[Henry V .009]

Why don't you just do whatever you did to stream the inauguration 4 years ago? Oh, wait.

Re:television

[adolf]

I find the manner in which you attack the person instead of the idea to be very telling. It is a very moronic and nonsensical behavioral pattern, like using brass knuckles to finish off a chess match.

Unfortunately, I don't know of any schools (aside from church, or perhaps prison) which can rectify such basic and imbecilic logical fallacies as these.

I don't have any particular advice for you on this matter. These are just my observations.

But I digress. VLC might be part of the answer, but Google brought me to this post [videolan.org] which states that VLC and C-Span do not cohabitate well.

With this in mind, perhaps the question would be better stated as follows:

"We have chosen to use a labor-intensive network video distribution system in a production environment, with little time for testing and even less time to develop failsafes, and huge opportunities for human error at all points. We selected this route because television is too easy, the picture is too good, the sound is always in sync. We feel that by using Teh Intarwebs, we'll be inspiring our schoolchildren to always look for the most difficult, elaborate, and expensive attack angle whenever there is a problem to solve, as per the gospel of Rube Goldberg.

Besides, TV is just uncool, with its lack of buffering and all. Where might we find a VLC-compatible feed of the inauguration proceedings?"

Re:In the words of Qui-Gon

[Anonymous Coward]

Honestly the only difference I ever saw between Palin and Obama is one is more articulate than the other.

That and Palin wasn't running for President. You may want to take your own advice there Jinn ol' boy.