Re: Open Video Guidelines (WAS: Re: [Foundations] Open Video Conference, NYU, June 19-20)

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi All:

On the accessibility front, it would be highly desirable to choose an 
encoding format that allows for closed captioning.  My accessible video 
knowledge is pretty limited, though, to even be able to make a 
suggestion for what to use.

Will

Paul Cutler wrote:
> I know this is slightly off topic, but I used the latest version of 
> Pitivi at Writing Open Source to transcode the keynotes from my 
> camcorder to ogg, and came away pretty impressed with PiTiVi since I 
> last used it a year ago.  (Speaking of dogfood and all).
>
> Paul
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> 
> wrote:
>
>     Jay,
>
>     How did it go?  I talked with J5 (John Palmieri) and he said he was
>     going to represent GNOME there.  I am of course very interested in
>     setting up something in this regard.  John had a pretty nice post on
>     this and I'm eager to set up something where we can dogfood our
>     video apps and be able to have a common site for tutorials and what not.
>
>     sri
>
>     On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Stormy Peters
>     <stormy peters gmail com <mailto:stormy peters gmail com>> wrote:
>
>         Anybody have any feedback for Jay on whether or not the
>         following tutorials will be useful to us? (I assume the
>         tutorials will be viewable remotely.)
>
>         On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Jay dedman
>         <jay dedman gmail com <mailto:jay dedman gmail com>> wrote:
>
>             Hey Stormy--
>
>             Just following up to see if you had any further ideas on
>             tutorials for the Open Video Conference.
>             We're discussing them now amongst ourselves.
>
>                 *  How to compress using Ogg/Theora so it looks really
>                   good (H264 is the standard comparison)
>                 *  How to embed the Ogg/Theora on a blog using the
>                   <video> tag
>                 *  How to customize the player used in the new Firefox
>                 *  What can we do with the <canvas> tag???
>
>             Not sure if any of this is of interest to you.
>
>             Jay
>
>
>             On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Jay dedman
>             <jay dedman gmail com <mailto:jay dedman gmail com>> wrote:
>              >
>              >> Nice to meet you! I'm cc'ing the GNOME marketing list as
>             that's where
>              >> we've been discussing a video project.
>              >> If we had an online guide to publishing practices for
>             open video
>              >> (including soliciting and sharing them), I'm sure many
>             projects would
>              >> find it useful. In addition if we had a common place to
>             share them we
>              >> could build up a good archive ...
>              >
>              > Hey Stormy--
>              >
>              > (I'm cc'ing our partner, Michael Verdi, on this email.)
>              >
>              > As Dean said, we plan to organize a table at the Open
>             Video Conference where
>              > video creators can get together to learn to use all this
>             new HTML5 +
>              > Ogg/Theora on their sites. We're going to get down and dirty.
>              >
>              > Our goal is to make some video tutorials for the
>             conference in response to
>              > some of the most commonly asked questions:
>              >
>              > How to compress using Ogg/Theora so it looks really good
>             (H264 is the
>              > standard comparison)
>              > How to embed the Ogg/Theora on a blog using the <video> tag
>              > How to customize the player used in the new Firefox
>              > What can we do with the <canvas> tag???
>              >
>              > We'll be publishing these videos to our work-in-progress
>             site, Freevlog.org.
>              > There's also Makeinternet.tv where we could crosspost.
>              >
>              > Let us know what you guys had in mind. As video creators,
>             we're currently
>              > trying to figure all that's possible with HTML5 and the
>             new Firefox.
>              >
>              > Jay
>              >
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