Oireachtas On-line Webcast Archives
Posted by bollinsl on 28 August 2008
The Dail and Seanad are Webcast live, and the recordings since 26 January 2008 are archived on two on-line video archive servers.
A simple on-line tool is available which generates XML links to the video segments based on the following inputs:
- Forum (Dáil | Seanad)
- Date
- Start time
- End time
Links can be generated to any part of the debates using this tool.
For example:
Examples are available on the
pages. The archive may be played embedded in the page, or as a stand alone player.
It is also possible to download the complete wmv video files, but they are around 6 GB for a days sitting.
The Oireachtas has two 5.5 TB servers (one is a backup), and given that there are 100 sitting days for each house a year, the storage requirement amounts to: 6 GB * 100 days * 2 houses = 1.6 TB per annum, or in other words, we have enough storage for over four years.
