KohaCon (may 2nd & 3rd) notes & questions
Hello all, Some quick questions/notes : * 52 persons registred for May 2nd, 32 for May 3rd (excluding all of us) * With all those subscriptions to the devWeek, the ppl coming to the 2 days in Paris are now unclear to me. could katipo/liblime/ccfls remind me who will be with us on may 2nd & 3rd. * The meeting will be registered on a videotape (VHS). Does someone from us have the tools to transfer it to a mpg4 or something that can be put on the net ? * As planned, on May 2nd, speakers only eat together in a chinese restaurant, while on May 3rd, we will all eat in a french restaurant ("all" means everybody : users as well as speakers) (ps for joshua : both with vegetarian food, of course) -- Paul POULAIN et Henri Damien LAURENT Consultants indépendants en logiciels libres et bibliothéconomie (http://www.koha-fr.org)
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 05:32:28PM +0200, Paul POULAIN wrote:
* 52 persons registred for May 2nd, 32 for May 3rd (excluding all of us)
* With all those subscriptions to the devWeek, the ppl coming to the 2 days in Paris are now unclear to me. could katipo/liblime/ccfls remind me who will be with us on may 2nd & 3rd. I will be the only one from LibLime attending the 2nd and 3rd meeting.
* The meeting will be registered on a videotape (VHS). Does someone from us have the tools to transfer it to a mpg4 or something that can be put on the net ? I offered to bring a video camera that could be used for a live webcast, which I think Katipo can host (russ can speak to that better). If you have a video camera on-site that would make my luggage weigh less :-). Let me know whether to bring mine.
* As planned, on May 2nd, speakers only eat together in a chinese restaurant, while on May 3rd, we will all eat in a french restaurant ("all" means everybody : users as well as speakers) (ps for joshua : both with vegetarian food, of course) Sounds delicious :-)
Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf@liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS
Hi Paul Joshua Ferraro wrote:
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 05:32:28PM +0200, Paul POULAIN wrote:
* 52 persons registred for May 2nd, 32 for May 3rd (excluding all of us)
Wow well done.
* With all those subscriptions to the devWeek, the ppl coming to the 2 days in Paris are now unclear to me. could katipo/liblime/ccfls remind me who will be with us on may 2nd & 3rd.
Chris and I will be there on the 2nd and 3rd *and* the deve week.
* The meeting will be registered on a videotape (VHS). Does someone from us have the tools to transfer it to a mpg4 or something that can be put on the net ?
I offered to bring a video camera that could be used for a live webcast, which I think Katipo can host (russ can speak to that better). If you have a video camera on-site that would make my luggage weigh less :-). Let me know whether to bring mine.
I was hoping that someone would have a camera with a digital out (firewire or usb) so that I can plug the camera directly into my laptop to do the encoding and upload to the streaming server. However, I will also bring an analog to digital convertor if the cameras dont have digital out (ie they only have rca jacks) I can still grab the feed. Either way covered. As I am not speaking at either day, my plan was to sit next to the camera and encode as we go. If I can't arrange to get a live webcast going, then at the least I may be able to upload video after each speaker. One other thing - Paul do you have a tripod for the camera? Paul - is there internet access at the venue for the 2nd and 3rd that we can use?
* As planned, on May 2nd, speakers only eat together in a chinese restaurant, while on May 3rd, we will all eat in a french restaurant ("all" means everybody : users as well as speakers) (ps for joshua : both with vegetarian food, of course)
Sounds delicious :-)
mmm food
Cheers,
-- Russel Garlick Operations Manager Katipo Communications Ph: +64 4 934 1285 Fax: +64 4 934 1286 Mob: +64 27 537 1377 Skype: russelgarlick Web http://www.katipo.co.nz
Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr>
* The meeting will be registered on a videotape (VHS). Does someone from=20 us have the tools to transfer it to a mpg4 or something that can be put=20 on the net ?
Please can we use Ogg Theora? I don't have a tv capture card, but I will try to get one if no-one else has one. Let me know. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 10:54:32AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Paul POULAIN <paul.poulain@free.fr>
* The meeting will be registered on a videotape (VHS). Does someone from=20 us have the tools to transfer it to a mpg4 or something that can be put=20 on the net ?
Please can we use Ogg Theora? I don't have a tv capture card, but I will try to get one if no-one else has one. Let me know.
The best video to computer solution I've found so far is via DV (either a DV camcorder or hardware video to DV encoder) to firewire. I use much less CPU pulling in DV over firewire than from a capture card. I also drop quite a few frames with capture cards, and never drop any with firewire. I agree that Ogg Theora is a nice format. There is a tool to convert straight from DV to Theora from FFMPEG called ffmpeg2theora. It may convert from other formats, too. -kolibrie
Hi
Please can we use Ogg Theora?
This would be a great idea. But the infrastructure on offer does not support this. If someone is happy to host content in this format, please let me know. What we have been offered at the moment is space on 2 Windows MMS servers. From my brief google, it seems that Windows MMS does not support Theora - If anyone can find something that says it does, please let me know. So in order to put streaming video up in Ogg Theora format, we would need someone to set up something like an IceCast server - http://www.icecast.org/ (which could be interesting). Katipo doesn't have any time to do this at the moment, but if someone wants to (perhaps you MJ??) then awesome. We could put the content up in both formats. My plan is to put the content up on the mms servers regardless. I have clients who only have Windows Media Player . From what I can see you need Winamp or some other 3rd party player (on Win) to play Ogg formats, which my clients are not allowed to install due their organisations "Common Desktop Environment" Policies. I don't want to exclude these people who are working on supporting open source in these environments. The reason I have offered space on the account we pay for is so I can reach my clients.
I don't have a tv capture card, but I will try to get one if no-one else has one. Let me know.
kolibrie's suggestion about capturing the video is ideally how I'd do it, but it will depend on video gear we have on the day. I *have* a video capture card that I am bringing with me, so that if camera on the day doesn't support firewire or usb we won't be sunk.
Hope that helps,
What would really be helpful is if you were to offer somewhere to host the files in the Ogg Theora format and pay for the bandwidth. This request goes out to anyone really - I am more than happy to do the conversions and send them through to someone to host. Any offers? Cheers Russel -- Russel Garlick Operations Manager Katipo Communications Ph: +64 4 934 1285 Fax: +64 4 934 1286 Mob: +64 27 537 1377 Skype: russelgarlick Web http://www.katipo.co.nz
Russel Garlick <russel@katipo.co.nz>
Please can we use Ogg Theora? This would be a great idea. But the infrastructure on offer does not support this. If someone is happy to host content in this format, please let me know.
That objection seems noisy. You never asked before AFAIK. I will host Ogg Theora content. Will katipo host for .nz? Who else?
What we have been offered at the moment is space on 2 Windows MMS servers. From my brief google, it seems that Windows MMS does not support Theora - If anyone can find something that says it does, please let me know.
Google is not a good way to find detail. What is Windows MMS server and what does it support? Does it support Directshow Filters? Directshow Filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC are at http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/
So in order to put streaming video up in Ogg Theora format, we would need someone to set up something like an IceCast server - http://www.icecast.org/ (which could be interesting).
Can you tell me what bandwidth you'll be using? I've asked my networkers, but I can't write a blank cheque for this. Regardless, I'll be a bittorrent seed for the videos.
My plan is to put the content up on the mms servers regardless. I have clients who only have Windows Media Player . From what I can see you need Winamp or some other 3rd party player (on Win) to play Ogg formats,
That is incorrect. See http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ for codecs. [...]
The reason I have offered space on the account we pay for is so I can reach my clients.
So do that privately. It's upsetting to see the Koha project supporting software by aggressive anti-competitive companies while locking out good honest free software users. Thanks, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask
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Joshua Ferraro -
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Russel Garlick