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LCA 2011

Posted Feb 3, 2011 14:51 UTC (Thu) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)
Parent article: LCA 2011

Does anyone know what is necessary to view blip.tv with free software? I have only ever seen big white space with bliptv URLs. ( I use gnash, which works on youtube and occaisional other sites but most video-embedding fails).

One could ask the related question, why is the conference uploading to a site that can't be viewed with free tools? At least it doesn't print a big banner telling me I haven't got a flash player installed.

Kudos to whoever provided the snippet for fishing out the real video URLs so it's easy to ignored the 'easy flash interface'. <hollow laughter here>

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LCA 2011

Posted Feb 3, 2011 15:24 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

I've succeeded in looking at the videos with free tools. You do need to have javascript enabled, of course. Then select one of the free formats from the little pulldown and you're off.

LCA 2011

Posted Feb 3, 2011 15:39 UTC (Thu) by gevaerts (subscriber, #21521) [Link]

All of the video pages have a "Files and Links" section somewhere on the right of the page. If you expand that, you get download links.

LCA 2011

Posted Feb 4, 2011 7:05 UTC (Fri) by rillian (subscriber, #11344) [Link]

To view the archives with free software:

1 Visit http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/ with a browser.
2. Click on "Episode Archive" in between the two nav bars
3. This should take you to http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/posts?view=archive
4. Page through and select the video you'd like to watch, e.g. http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/file/4692974/
5. Scroll down below the abstract. There is a gray bar with two selectors.
If there is a link which says, "Play in HTML5" click on it. If it says, "Play in Flash" you're already getting the video element.
6. In the popup immediately above the link from step 5, where it says, "Select a format" choose "Web -- Ogg Theora/Vorbis.
7. Scroll all the way to the bottom, and click on the link that says "Download"
8. Watch the .ogv stream it gives you in your browser, or hand it off to your media player.

Simple!

I'm told there's a ticket open.