Open Source 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]