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Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available
Videos from the recently concluded linux.conf.au in Ballarat have been
uploaded to YouTube.
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Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 23, 2012 23:08 UTC (Mon) by guest01 (guest, #25274) [Link]
It would sure be nice if someone could put together a web page listing the talks with links to both the videos and slides the way the nice people at Free Electrons do for the embedded conferences.
Those easy links Posted Jan 24, 2012 1:34 UTC (Tue) by sladen (subscriber, #27402) [Link] It doesn't have the slides you're after, but for those easy video links (from a couple of days ago here on LWN):
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 24, 2012 3:25 UTC (Tue) by malcolmt (subscriber, #65441) [Link]
Good things come to those who wait.
The organisers made a point of collecting links to slides from speakers and the email we (speakers) received when our video was initially uploaded to YouTube is that the videos will also eventually be placed on the linux.org.au website. So the intention appears to be there. What's on YouTube is available only a couple of days after the event for those who are eager; other formats appear set to be provided in due course.
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 26, 2012 13:22 UTC (Thu) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]
Ah, good. I was wondering, before I read your comment, that if the organizers plan to outsource their video hosting, why they didn't use a site that explicitly allows for downloads (e.g. Vimeo or Blip.tv -- though the latter's not as download-friendly as it was earlier)
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 30, 2012 21:10 UTC (Mon) by acoopersmith (subscriber, #72107) [Link] http://lanyrd.com/2012/linuxconfau/ is a user-generated listing of talks and whatever links, videos, slides, etc. are available for them. You can find or create similar pages for any conference - for instance, SCALE 10x or FOSDEM 2012.
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 24, 2012 4:45 UTC (Tue) by gnehzuil (guest, #58176) [Link]
Could you please put these videos and slides into another website besides youtube. In some countries, youtube cannot be accessed. Thank you!
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 24, 2012 5:15 UTC (Tue) by ras (subscriber, #33059) [Link]
All video's for all LCA's end up on mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/. Rumour has it the 2012 video's are due to start appearing their today. mirror.linux.org.au supports http, ftp and rsync.
They should also start appearing at http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/linux.conf.au/ at the same time.
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 24, 2012 8:18 UTC (Tue) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link]
Amazing, they're not using a Silverlight player anymore?
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 24, 2012 11:09 UTC (Tue) by ras (subscriber, #33059) [Link]
Must you drag that up 2 years later?
Besides, our excuse is it wasn't us, it was the those Kiwi's.
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 24, 2012 22:11 UTC (Tue) by PaulWay (✭ supporter ✭, #45600) [Link]
Or, more precisely, it was the live streaming used by the company that was brought in to do the video recording. So it's not like the organisers chose it or anything.
Personally I don't see the point of live streaming. Either come to the conference, or wait for the videos. So to me having it in Silverlight was a handy rude gesture to those that don't want to come to the conference but want to enjoy it in real time :-)
Have fun,
Paul
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 24, 2012 22:38 UTC (Tue) by rillian (subscriber, #11344) [Link] Personally I don't see the point of live streaming. Either come to the conference, or wait for the videos. Not everyone can attend the conference. They may have other commitments, financial or travel restrictions, insufficiently broad interest, and so on. Video streams makes the event more inclusive, which is a primary value in our community. It's also helpful to have the videos available during the conference, not a week (or a month!) later. During the conference is when people are talking about the issues, about what they've heard. It's when the buzz is happening. I often want to send links to folks who didn't attend, but would be interested in a particular talk. At the conference, Tim Ansell made some excellent points in this vein as well:
In short, I think putting a fence around a linux conference is the wrong way to approach the problem. People want to come in person because it's an awesome environment. The streams help the community participate together, whether any particular person was able to attend or not.
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 26, 2012 9:10 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
live streaming does no good if you want to talk about what you heard, for that you need the recordings available.
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 24, 2012 12:50 UTC (Tue) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]
I've started a torrent for the videos. You can get it from magnet:?xt=urn:btih:32a736a62fb009c7aabba8048999cdf542a7ecf3&dn=lca2012-videos&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce , or from https://joshtriplett.org/tmp/lca2012-videos.torrent . (Note the /tmp/ in that URL; definitely not a permalink.)
The torrent includes both the .ogv and .mp4 versions, but feel free to turn off whichever version you don't want in your torrent client.
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available Posted Jan 24, 2012 16:53 UTC (Tue) by riot_dd (subscriber, #55338) [Link]
Thanks alot.
Now on archive.org in webm format Posted Jan 25, 2012 0:43 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]
They are also available on archive.org in webm format:
http://www.archive.org/details/Linux.conf.au2012Conferenc...
Now on archive.org in webm format Posted Jan 25, 2012 8:37 UTC (Wed) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]
Ouch. According to the description there, those .webm videos got transcoded from YouTube's .flv videos. The .flv videos in turn almost certainly got transcoded from either the .ogv or .mp4 videos.
Considering that YouTube transcodes natively to webm (to support the HTML5 player), why not simply grab YouTube's webm files, which have gone through only one level of encoding from the original rather than two?
Now on archive.org in webm format Posted Jan 25, 2012 16:59 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
I like the 'clive -f best <url>' approach.
Now on archive.org in webm format Posted Jan 25, 2012 17:27 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]
I could not find webm versions posted on YouTube... and yes I enabled the HTML5 beta option. The flv files were mp4 inside. I don't think that Google transcodes everything into webm. The only thing I've heard is that they transcode all HD stuff to webm. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
The originals, so far as I can tell, were done at 640x480. Perhaps other releases (non-YouTube) are available in higher resolutions.
Now having written all of that... I DO NOT WANT high quality / high resolution versions of these videos. Why? Download time and disk storage space. I did actually reduce the bitrate to 300kbit. Made them a bit smaller. The quality is still good enough to hear and see the slides... and that's what's important. It really isn't a bad idea to have higher quality versions available on archive.org... but it was hard enough uploading the ~12GBs I already uploaded. :)
Now on archive.org in webm format Posted Jan 26, 2012 0:27 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465) [Link]
youtube-dl has a --prefer-free-formats option which makes it prefer .webm over .mp4; works perfectly on the LCA2012 videos.
If you tried to grab them immediately after they appeared on YouTube, the transcode might not have happened yet.
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