About Open Source Video

Open Source Video is a project of Constant, a Brussels based organisation for Arts and Media.
Open Source Video is a loosely connected group of artists, designers, videomakers who are interested in working with open source tools for video. We share a video-machine, regularly Open Source Video organises software workshops and meetings.

This weblog is a collective testing ground for producing and distributing open source video. Here we keep traces of experiments with software for sharing and editing video, and report on what we found to be effective hardware, linux distributions and helpful configurations. Also: tips and hints on where to find software manuals, practical info on using software etc. This blog contains posts on annotating, tracing, collectively editing and sharing video online. We are interested in finding ways to make archived video material accessible, searchable and keep video archives alive by allowing the content to be re-interpreted.

Since most info here is the result of trial and error, we appreciate your comments with corrections and additions. Most of the people contributing to this blog work on Linux machines. So, unless noted otherwise, simple default specs of machines on which we work is: relatively recent PC with a recent Ubuntu or Debian operating system.

All texts, video’s and images are copyleft by Constant, under the conditions of the Free Art License