Open Source Video

Open Video @ Jan Van Eyck Academie

OPEN VIDEO
HTML5, the next revision of the HyperText Mark-up Language, is supposed to open a new chapter in web design and web-based publishing. The support of multimedia content by self-explanatory video and audio tags will have major impact for developers, designers and content producers.
Most importantly, it allows the seamless integration of open-source encoded audio and video content into the native browser environment. Furthermore, it opens up exciting and yet unforeseeable possibilities to revaluate and to re-invent the rather peculiar relationships between text, sound and moving or still image.
The Open Video project will research into past and present open-source video implementations with the goal to develop an independent platform that explores the specific potentials of self-authored and self-managed, open-source video publishing initiatives against the backdrop of the overwhelming dominance of mass-media like content providers.

Open video calls for code developers, web designers and digital content producers.
Advising researcher: Florian Schneider

Applications
Research candidates can apply for a one-year or two-year research period starting annually on 1 January. It is also possible to apply to do research for a different period and with a different starting date.

More info
Please visit our website at http://www.janvaneyck.nl (button ‘applications’) for more information

Pioneer One

An object in the sky spreads radiation over North America. Fearing terrorism, U.S. Homeland Security agents are dispatched to investigate and contain the damage. What they discover will have implications for the entire world.

Pioneer One is the first ever ‘made for torrent’ series. Pioneer One is the latest project from Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith whose previous indie feature The Lionshare, became VODO’s biggest success to date with over 450,000 downloads since its release. The success of the project inspired the writer/director duo to develop this quality drama in collaboration with VODO and its distribution partners. With a successful distribution of the pilot they’re hunting for the donors and sponsors that will make the continuation of the show possible.

Direct downloads, Torrents, streaming and more info:
http://vodo.net/pioneerone

License:
Creative Commons Attribution, non commercial, Share alike
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Projective HTML5 Video using Canvas API

Read original post on Narendra Sisodiya’s blog:
TechFandu : Tips and Tricks in Computer

“When I saw, Projective Texturing with Canvas by Steven Wittens http://acko.net/blog/projective-texturing-with-canvas, I was amazed.”

“Yesterdaynight I was trying to same with Video using SVG. SVG has affine transformation but clipping part was difficult. So I modified the Original source code by Steven. Believe me it was , I just changed few lines and now the same demo working for Videos too. ”

See the first working demo here:

http://wiki.techfandu.org/eduvid/projective-video/

Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube Open letter to Google: free VP8, and use it on YouTube

The Theora codec is derived from the proprietary VP3 codec, released into the public domain by On2 Technologies. Google has now bought the On2 company.

The Free Software Foundation has published an open letter to Google:

“With its purchase of the On2 video compression technology company having been completed on Wednesday February 16, 2010, Google now has the opportunity to make free video formats the standard, freeing the web from both Flash and the proprietary H.264 codec.”

Read also Google’s challenges of freeing VP8; in this blog post it is argued how the purchase could mean a step forwards on the road to a universally acceptable free video codec.

raw1394 module … encore

After installing Ubuntu 9.04 from scratch, I have had some bad flashbacks to the zillion times this problem occurred before in previous sytem installations.

Capturing in Kino / dvgrab does not work because the /dev/raw1394 module is not loaded and I, as a user, have no write permissions.

I found the following post helpful. It explains how to configure/make install the lmatest version of Kino and how to add the module.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5959051&postcount=8

small note to step no. 9:
“adding your username to group ‘disk’:
In my case this group did not exist, so I added this group to the list, and then made myself a member to it.

Starwars Uncut

“Hello! You and 472 other people have the chance to recreate Star Wars: A New Hope. Below is the entire movie split up into 15 second clips. Click on one of the scenes to claim it, film it, and upload it. You can have up to three scenes! When we’re all done, we’ll stitch it all together and watch the magic happen. ”

Go to Starwars Uncut website

Claim quickly: Star Wars Uncut is 99% complete!

Starwars Uncut is set up by Casey Pugh . Find a nice interview with Casey here.
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ffmpeg2theora 0.26 released

(fwd from Theora list: http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theora)

ffmpeg2theora 0.26 is out – http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora

Some changes that went into this release:
* use a/v sync from input container
this should fix many issues that came up with variable framerates
* include metadata from source in –info json output
* update fmpeg
* update libkate
* OggIndex support, can be enabled with –seek-index
* update GPL to version 3

Source:

http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/downloads/ffmpeg2theora-0.26.tar.bz2

svn co https://svn.xiph.org/tags/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.26

Binaries:
Linux 32bit

http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.26.linux32.bin

Linux 64bit

http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.26.linux64.bin

Mac OS X

http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.26.pkg.zip

Windows

http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/ffmpeg2theora-0.26.exe

TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT

“To shoot an elephant” by Alberto Arce/ Mohammad Rujailah is an eye witness account from The Gaza Strip. December 27th, 2008, Operation Cast Lead. 21 days shooting elephants. Urgent, insomniac, dirty, shuddering images from the only foreigners who decided and managed to stay embedded inside Gaza strip ambulances, with Palestinian civilians. The film is a collaborative effort and released under a CC license.

The team calls for a global screening, global screaming day on january 18th, 2010

Buy a dvd or download a torrent of the film and organise a local screening.

For those of you who are in Brussels,
the Brussels Palestine Collective organsied a screening in:

Piano Fabriek Cultural Center
Fortstraat 35 Sint-Gillis @ 19:00h
Brussels – Belgium
There will be a discussion with Ludo De Brabander (Gaza Freedom March)

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Magic Lantern os firmware

(Probably old) News for owners of a Canon Eos 5d Mark II camera who want to use their still image camera as a videocamera, there is the open source firmware upgrade MagicLantern. Installing ML gives the choice to boot the camera into either the Canon factory software or the firmware.
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Apertus O.S. camera project

“The goal of the Apertus: Open Source Cinema Project is to create a powerful free and open cinema camera that we as filmmakers love to use. The idea of using an Elphel camera for this particular purpose was born in 2006, found many followers over the years and ultimately resulted in this community driven project entitled “Apertus” and this website.”

The camera is operated with video disk recorder and file browser (camogmgui). See development wiki page.

Here’s the discussion forum of the Apertus Open Source cinema project.

This wiki-page is created as FAQ about the development of the Elphel digital cinema cameras.
Here you’ll find info on hardware configuration, technical specs, video samples.