<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 21:34, Donna Benjamin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donna@cc.com.au">donna@cc.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 21:10 +1100, Peter Lieverdink wrote:<br>
> Event video, now and in the future<br>
> Video and audio must be made available via the LA mirror as soon as<br>
> possible. Not elsewhere first.<br>
<br>
</div>Ummm... Yeah so I would think getting the video out ASAP seems more<br>
important than exactly where it's initially hosted?<br>
<br>
I thought the AV streaming at LCA this year was amazing, and subsequent<br>
posting to <a href="http://blip.tv" target="_blank">blip.tv</a> made it very accessible to people who couldn't make<br>
it to the conference.<br>
<br>
Can someone please explain the rationale behind this statement?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Obviously not speaking for the committee, and based on a mixture of my own thoughts and feedback received from others during the event:</div>
<div><ul><li>There is no question that merely publishing the video during the event was an epic success, and an achievement for future conferences to aspire to.</li><li>The blip library interface is painful, buggy and inflexible, so you spend a lot of time dicking around trying to get to the videos (or you end up making a wiki page to link all of the videos and everyone uses that instead -- surprise).</li>
<li>Even raw downloads from blip (not using the video player, Flash or otherwise) are throttled, making it very difficult to suck down a bunch of videos quickly. This was of particular frustration to many international guests I spoke to, who would have liked to watch the talks they missed on the flight home.</li>
<li><a href="http://mirror.linux.org.au">mirror.linux.org.au</a> is hosted in Australia, and it's fucking fast.</li><li>There was some bizarre rationalisation about using blip because it provided viewing statistics for future papers committees, but there's no reason we couldn't get the same out of <a href="http://mirror.linux.org.au">mirror.linux.org.au</a> (and can do even better).</li>
<li>Uploading to <a href="http://mirror.linux.org.au">mirror.linux.org.au</a> can/should be faster and easier from the venue than a non-scp-accessible system hosted overseas. :-)</li></ul><div>Having said all of the above, I'd be very happy to help put together a nice front-end for videos hosted on <a href="http://mirror.linux.org.au">mirror.linux.org.au</a>, with HTML5 awesome, player/format fallbacks, stats, etc... and a method of uploading/classifying video that makes it easy for conferences and LUGs to push stuff up there. (And I have the sneaking suspicion that Silvia would enjoy hacking on this too, so I will also volunteer her HTML5 super-powers!)</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>- Jeff</div></div>