Nice work!<br>If nobody is doing a German translation, I'll get onto it during my flight to NY on Monday.<br>Silvia.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Gregory Maxwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmaxwell@gmail.com">gmaxwell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Xiph.Org announces its first documentary video production: "A Digital<br>
Media Primer for Geeks"<br>
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<a href="http://www.xiph.org/video/" target="_blank">http://www.xiph.org/video/</a><br>
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"A Digital Media Primer For Geeks" is the first video from Xiph.Org,<br>
presenting the technical foundations of modern digital media via a<br>
half-hour firehose of information. Christopher "Monty" Montgomery, Red<br>
Hat engineer and founder of the Xiph.Org project, guides this tour<br>
through the foundations of digital video. The program offers a brief<br>
history of digital media, a quick summary of the sampling theorem, and<br>
myriad details of low-level audio and video characterization and<br>
formatting. It's intended for budding geeks looking to get into video<br>
coding, as well as the technically curious who want to know more about<br>
the media they wrangle for work or play. The video features a wiki<br>
companion site with transcripts, discussion, and further reading.<br>
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"Open Source has conquered and filled much of the original territory<br>
to which it aspired, but the media frontier, especially video, is<br>
still wide open and unexplored," Montgomery says. "Camera and computer<br>
costs have come down to the point where hackers on modest budgets can<br>
afford to participate." Members of the digital video community have<br>
called it "[the] Uni lecture I never got but really wanted" and "Carl<br>
Sagan on speed." The video is released under the Creative Commons<br>
CC-BY-NC-SA license for free redistribution and reuse, and was created<br>
entirely using free and open source software.<br>
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The Xiph.Org Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization<br>
dedicated to open, unencumbered multimedia technology. Xiph's formats<br>
and software level the playing field for digital media so that all<br>
producers and artists can distribute their work for minimal cost,<br>
without restriction, regardless of affiliation. May contain traces of<br>
nuts.<br>
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