FOMS, LCA Multimedia 2008: Videos

I arrived back in Japan after a few awesome weeks in Australia for FOMS and LCA. The weather in Melbourne was great, and the food was fantastic.

Between FOMS and LCA, dozens of free multimedia software developers were in town. It was the first time that developers of Dirac, Speex, Theora, Vorbis, Ogg, and most of the Annodex crew were all in the same place, so we spent most of the week of LCA holed up in a room designing content description and packaging formats. One immediate outcome will be finalization of the Dirac mapping into the Ogg container.

I organised the multimedia miniconf on the Monday of LCA, which was jam-packed with excellent presentations and lightning talks. Thanks to everyone who came, and talked, and video recorded. There were plenty of comments along the lines of it being "pretty hardcore for a miniconf". If you are interested in helping with next year's LCA Multimedia, or have friends in Hobart who might be able to help, let's start throwing around ideas. In particular, quite a few people asked what happened to the audio miniconf parties from a few years ago, and it might be a good chance to revive those ...

Videos

The following pages contain embedded videos of the presentations from these events, and the multimedia-related presentations from LCA:

• FOMS Proceedings: introductions by the participants
• LCA Multimedia: Dirac, Xiph, EngageMedia, FFADO and many others
• Multimedia talks @LCA: PulseAudio, Ogg, Theora, Telepathy, Farsight ...

The videos on these pages are embedded with mv_embed, which supports playback via the OggPlay plugin for Firefox, vlc-plugin or generic application/ogg. mv_embed is a JavaScript library by Michael Dale of MetaVid. It is really easy to use, you just include that library (<script src="...">) and then write <video src="..."> anywhere in your page. No need to wait for native HTML5 support in your browser :-)