Im thinking about teaching fly tying lessons through the internet on skype or yahoo messenger durring saturday’s tying class… The lessons will be live video & voice… Figure it might be helpfull for beginners to be able to see a fly being tied so they can tie along, ask questions and have fun tying at the same time… I go by the user name flyfishingtyer on either skype or user name fathertyme5 on yahoo messenger… If anyone is interested you can send me a PM… If there is 3 or more tyers interested Ill get it all set up…
count me in unless the gf needs me 
Bugman,
I’ve been curious for quite some time on how feasible this is. Can you get sufficient resolution at a reasonable bandwidth to make this practical (i.e. one cannot assume faster than DSL for average user)? Have also been curious how easy it would be to set up a virtual tying “jam” session with multiple tiers video conferencing and tying together.
My assumption has been that there really isn’t enough bandwidth yet to make this practical, but it is only a matter of time.
Thats exactly what im working on… a multi-tyer video tying sessions… so far it works great on 3 way conference… the only problem is that the video part is small but great resolution… trying to fix the video size problem as im looking on the bb… Im going to be teaching the fly tying class through yahoo messenger since most folks are allready fermilliar with it…
Interesting. If you get it in place, I wouldn’t mind sitting in just to see how well it works if you have room. BTW, in case you haven’t found it already, the flytyingforum.com (http://www.flytyingforum.com/) has an existing “virtual” fly tying class format in place that you might want to take a look at. Fulfills the requirement of multicasting for distance learning, but does not have the video conferencing feature which I think is key to this sort of technology. I haven’t played with Yahoo Messenger, nor iChat (the Mac solution) but those look like easily deployable technologies, albeit for limited numbers (e.g. iChat can only conference 3 people). Most web cams are not going to have sufficient detail, I would think, but a digitial video camera, a small tripod, sufficient light, and a USB video capture device would solve that problem. Bandwidth is the greatest unknown factor.
bandwidth is the main concern especially bringing in 5 or more tyers into video conference… i will be running a test through yahoo messenger to see how well its gonna work & what can be done to make it better… so far i can get 4 people in without a problem, great video and voice… with 5 or more people in at once, the video seems to lag on at least one of the 5’s computer… doesnt lag on mine but its because im hosting the thing or at least thats what i assume anyhow;;; bandwidth or processor problem i beleive to be the cause of lagging video on some computers…
just tested with yahoo messenger and it wasnt good… had exelent results with skype so im setting everything up on skype…
is there space still? i would love to join the party…
i recommend skype for video chat (:
yep they is