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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 [...]
NewsPioneer 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 [...]
Films and Projects, NewsOpen 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 [...]
News, Patentsraw1394 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 [...]
Manuals, News, Problems and solutionsffmpeg2theora 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 [...]
Editing software, News, Pre-production, SoftwareTO 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 filming, Films and Projects, NewsMagic 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.
Films and Projects, Hardware, NewsApertus 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 [...]
Copyrights and licenses, Hardware, NewsElphel 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 [...]
Copyrights and licenses, Hardware, NewsFrankencam 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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