Philip Hazel's Exim talk at WLUG
Hi everyone, On the 1st of February we were happy to have Philip Hazel, author of Exim and PCRE, present to WLUG (see http://www.wlug.org.nz/MeetingTopics.2005-02-01 for the writeup). The meeting was videoed and was then encoded by R2 in Wellington. You can find it with the NZNOG talks at http://www.r2.co.nz/20050203/, else a direct link is at http://www.r2.co.nz/20050203/p-hazel.asx. Be warned, the entire talk comes in at about 650mb. If anyone is interested I might be able to get a couple of copies on CD at the next meeting. With the win32 codecs (w32codecs package from Marillat on Ubuntu) you can play this stream with mplayer. Regards, Craig
* Craig Box <craig(a)dubculture.co.nz> [2005-07-31 12:15]:
The meeting was videoed and was then encoded by R2 in Wellington. You can find it with the NZNOG talks at http://www.r2.co.nz/20050203/, else a direct link is at http://www.r2.co.nz/20050203/p-hazel.asx.
I’m not usually particularly political about codecs and don’t generally care to raise a fuss about the decoder I need to watch something. I’ll watch anything, encoding in any format I have the codecs to decode. But when *creating* a video, wouldn’t it be appropriate for someone promoting free software to use *anything* *other* than Windows Media for the purpose? I’m not even saying to use Ogg Theora; use MPEG4 or H.263 if you want. They have wide coverage of codecs on all operating systems and they’re open standards. Disappointed, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 18:09 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Craig Box <craig(a)dubculture.co.nz> [2005-07-31 12:15]:
The meeting was videoed and was then encoded by R2 in Wellington. You can find it with the NZNOG talks at http://www.r2.co.nz/20050203/, else a direct link is at http://www.r2.co.nz/20050203/p-hazel.asx.
But when *creating* a video, wouldn’t it be appropriate for someone promoting free software to use *anything* *other* than Windows Media for the purpose? I’m not even saying to use Ogg Theora; use MPEG4 or H.263 if you want. They have wide coverage of codecs on all operating systems and they’re open standards.
We didn't digitise the video, this was done by a commercial company who do lots of video streaming, etc. We do, however, own the copyright on the video, so I assume we have the legal right to transcode it to another format and make that publicly available, although we don't have the bandwidth available that r2.co.nz do. John
* John R. McPherson <jrm21(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz> [2005-07-31 22:50]:
we don't have the bandwidth available that r2.co.nz do.
See www.coralcdn.net about that – a sort of Poor Man’s Akamai. It’s a free P2P caching system anyone can use. Just append .nyud.net:8090 to the hostname of a URL and it works. No setup, no signup, no nothing. The only condition is that they can only cache content that lives on a HTTP server listening on port 80 (ie non-standard ports or things like HTTPS or streaming protocols don’t work). They have about 260 peers all over the world right now. One concern for NZers is possibly that I don’t see a host in NZ on their map, though there is one in Australia. So it might all be int’l traffic or something. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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