Open Source Video

Projective HTML5 Video using Canvas API

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Open Images

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

Video tag in Dailymotion: Flash out the door

Download Firefox 3.5 beta next to your current browser, follow this link, and see a flash free version of Daily motion, which uses the html < video > tag instead of Flash.