Open Source Video

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.

Elphel OS network camera

NC353L-369-HDD

Elphel, Inc. provides high performance cameras based on free software and open hardware designs. “Freedom of the users of Elphel products is our top priority – we value and protect it with the GNU General Public License that covers all the Elphel software and hardware designs.

This freedom extends from the convenience of the out-of-the-box usage of the cameras with the intuitive GUI to the possibility to modify any parts of them. It protects user right to create and distribute derivative products based on our designs, products that may be suitable for the applications we had never thought about ourselves.”
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Frankencam Open Source SLR

Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks.

Read article for Stanford University news by David Orenstein.

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Video tag with Cortado fallback

I used this extended video tag from Theora.org to display Ogg/Theora video’s on my work blog. Works great.

<video src=”http://www.archive.org/download/Rooms_Rules_Roles/Rooms_Roles_Rules.ogv” width=”352″ height=”288″>
<applet code=”com.fluendo.player.Cortado.class” archive=”http://theora.org
/cortado.jar” width=”352″ height=”288″>
<param name=”url” value=”http://www.archive.org/download/Rooms_Rules_Roles/Rooms_Roles_Rules.ogv”/>
</applet>
</video>

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Open Images

Open Images is an open media platform that offers online access to a selection of audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse.
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TheoraCookbook

FLOSS Manuals is a collection of manuals that explain how to install and use a range of free and open source software. The manuals are friendly and simple, and they are intended to encourage people to explore the wide range of free, open source alternatives to expensive and restrictively licensed software.

FlossManuals.net now hosts great information on how to use Theora video. In true cookbook style, the TheoraCookbook several aspects of working with Theora are explained. With the recent Book Sprint that was held in Berlin, and the help of many loosely connected contributors, the Theora Coockbook has (well .. in my humble opinion that is) become an indispensible document for anybody working with open source video.
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