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Video from ILC2009?

Most of the sessions I attended at ILC2009 were recorded, and I presume the intention is that video will be posted at some point. Has that already happened (and I simply haven't stumbled across the relevant links)?

Regardless, thanks in advance to those working at getting that video out on the nets.

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Video hosting

I have about 36 DV tapes, each holding over one hour of SD video. I have a Mac with Final Cut and I know how to use it. I can edit together the tapes (tutorials were multi-tape, some tapes span talks) to make one video for each tutorial or talk, and put titles onto them, and so on. That's somewhat time-consuming but straightforward. Then Final Cut can write out files in various formats, including format suitable for distribution over the net.

But what do I do after that? I need a site to host videos. It has to be powerful enough to handle people watching video, and have appropriate server software. But it also has to be inexpensive or free. I don't have any money for this. I could ask the ALU if they can pay for it, but first I must figure out the cheapest alternative that will provide service that is at least good if not great. The site from which the main ILC site is hosted is known to not be suitable. YouTube has sharp limits on the lengths of videos (5 mins, or maybe up to 10 min), not suitable for the 40 hours or so that we have.

Suggestions I have gotten so far:

archive.org, which hosts Drupalcon sessions.

video.google.com

vimeo

nearlyfreespeech.net

www2.confreaks.com, which says it'll host videos for free if they are under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license

dreamhost, but I've seen some disrecommendations of them.

Just convert it to compressed MP4 and host it anywhere.

blip.tv, used by Pycon this year. They have both free and pro ($8/month) accounts.

That's the info I've collected so far from various friends. Now I have to look into each one of those to see which is most suitable, etc. This will all take some time, and I'm still "recovering" from the conference (that is, catching up with the rest of my life). But I very much want to get these videos online.

  • By Daniel Weinreb at 04/08/2009 - 09:11
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Help Needed?

Is there anything attendees can do to help you with this process? Maybe some people would be willing to sponsor the ripping and hosting of particular sessions and such.

Outside of that, I'd think we could 'crowdsource' the editing of the raw video, as I can imagine that that's the most time-consuming portion of the work.

  • By cemerick at 08/26/2009 - 09:42
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Videos

What ever became of this. Are the videos available somewhere?

Best regards

  • By demmel at 07/10/2009 - 10:34
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Hosting

Hi Dan
I'm glad you are working on the videos and I really want to see them soon. If the price of hosting is only $8/month I'm ready to pay for one year of hosting them .

cheers
bobi

  • By slobodanblazeski at 04/10/2009 - 08:12
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Thank you for all of your

Thank you for all of your efforts Daniel. It's unfortunate that these sorts of things aren't so amenable to community effort.

I've had good experiences with blip.tv FWIW. Alternatively, perhaps setting up a torrent for each talk (or however you decide to slice up the footage) would be easiest on you and/or whoever you manage to recruit to help with the encoding/distribution? Then people can spread things around to various web-based services.

  • By cemerick at 04/09/2009 - 14:29
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