[dundee] FOSDEM 2011 Videos

[Kenny Coyle]

I was in a conversation with the video guy at FOSDEM - Video and Audio
broadcasting really hits my geek-nerve ^.^

To what I can gather, the logistics involved in recording the videos in
different formats is seriously complicated (the main track was being
recorded from a broadcast quality camera to a laptop via firewire). Most of
the video has been saved in a quasi-dv format to hard disk for later
rendering - making it quite difficult to transcode at a later date. The main
priority during fosdem is both saving of video and broadcasting it via
Icecast, so it's always a compromise.

There has been discussion of converting it all to WebM, but I think that's
still in the works.

Cheers,
K.

On 17 February 2011 18:47, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:24:07 +0000, gordon dunlop wrote:
>
> > The Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting
> > (FOSDEM) was recently held in Brussels, Belgium on the 5th & 6th
> > February 2011. The videos can be downloaded from their archives or
> > streamed from their YouTube site.
> >
> > http://www.fosdem.org/2011/media/video
>
> Ah, nice one.
>
> Curiously though, the lightning and maintrack videos are back in AVI
> format. Some of the other stuff is in WebM though. Shame they didn't
> just do the whole lot like that...
>
> > Gordon
>
> Andrew
>
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