[dundee] FOSDEM 2011 Videos

[Andrew Clayton]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:00:04 +0000, Kenny Coyle wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for the info.

Andrew