Camera 1Camera 2Welcome to the live webcast from New Raman Reti, the Hare Krishna temple in Alachua, Florida, USA. The cameras broadcast a new live image every 20 seconds. Click on either image for a larger view. Sometimes there’s not much to see: the temple interior, the decorative gates. At other times you can see the deities (sacred forms) of Krishna, or devotees gathered for chanting or a class. During lecture times, you can ask questions in our live chat room.
Live Video Morning Program
We just finished testing our upgraded Internet connection with some borrowed equipment and it worked! Live streaming video from the Alachua temple room during the morning program, Sunday Feast, and the many festivals throughout the year is almost a reality. We have two dedicated volunteers who will staff the broadcast. Now we just need your help to purchase some equipment. We can start with the existing cameras in the temple room, and would like to upgrade one of the cameras (see second listing below.)
Dual-camera live video stream.
$1750 Dell XPS laptop, fast processor and extra memory
$380 Telestream Wirecast switching software
$155 Canopus ADVC analog to digital media converter
$155 second Canopus ADVC media converter
$33 Belkin 6-port firewire hub
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$2,473
Contribute a donation towards this essential equipment to get the live video streaming started. We will list each contribution below, as we receive them.
Your name here - Be the first to contribute.
Camera Upgrade. We would like to install another camera near the front of the Alachua temple room, facing back towards the devotees and Srila Prabhupada, to be able to see people’s faces better when switching between two live signals. We’d like to upgrade the SONY SNC-RZ25N camera at the back of the temple room, which has 18x optical zoom, with the more powerful 36x optical zoom SONY SNC-RX570N, and use the present camera in the new location, at the front of the temple room. This will do two things at once, increase the quality and zoom of the still images you currently enjoy from that camera angle, and allow it to become the main video camera for the live video stream, with powerful 36x optical zoom to get closer views of the person giving Bhagavatam class, and of the deities.
$2,300 Sony Camera SNC-RX570N pan, tilt and 36x optical zoom.
Contribute a donation towards this new camera. We will list each contribution below.
Your name here. Be the first to contribute.
Here are some recent photos. Click on the thumbnails for a larger view, then use your browser’s back button to return here.
Sri Sri Radha-Shyamasundara
Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai
Small Gaura-Nitai
Sri Shyamasundara
Sri Radha
Sri Shyama’s Lotus Feet
When you click on LISTEN, you can hear either a lecture or chanting session. If there’s nothing going on in the temple, we’ll often play a recording of Srila Prabhupada (our founder) chanting. You can now subscribe to our daily lecture. Receive it automatically in your e-mail, or use any of the following podcast services:
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We’re up about 90% of the time, though sometimes choppy or interrupted. If you’re a regular and notice we’re down, please let us know through our feedback form or call us, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST, at 386-462-0481.
We try our best to provide you with recent lecture podcasts. Every now and then we encounter a recording error and the lecture doesn’t get recorded. Sorry.
With our audio channel, what you hear usually lags behind what you see, sometimes by as much as two minutes. That’s normal. The amount of delay between picture and sound equals the preloading buffer time of your audio software. (Preloading is used by your audio software to avoid skipping of your audio feed.)
If you click on our audio channel and your computer asks what you’d like to do with the “.m3u” file, open it with the latest version of WinAmp, a free player for this sort of audio. For Mac OSX, use VLC.
This service is provided by volunteers at the Alachua Hare Krishna temple. The live radio, webcam, and podcast cost $350 per month for broadband and server fees. Your kind donations help offset this monthly cost. We thank you by name next to the webcam image, and at the bottom of most of the pages of Krishna.com. Thank you! You can also contribute anonymously.
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