theora - Sep 2010 - Announcing A Digital Media Primer for Geeks

Xiph.Org announces its first documentary video production: "A Digital
Media Primer for Geeks"

http://www.xiph.org/video/

"A Digital Media Primer For Geeks" is the first video from Xiph.Org,
presenting the technical foundations of modern digital media via a
half-hour firehose of information. Christopher "Monty" Montgomery, Red
Hat engineer and founder of the Xiph.Org project, guides this tour
through the foundations of digital video. The program offers a brief
history of digital media, a quick summary of the sampling theorem, and
myriad details of low-level audio and video characterization and
formatting. It's intended for budding geeks looking to get into video
coding, as well as the technically curious who want to know more about
the media they wrangle for work or play. The video features a wiki
companion site with transcripts, discussion, and further reading.

"Open Source has conquered and filled much of the original territory
to which it aspired, but the media frontier, especially video, is
still wide open and unexplored," Montgomery says. "Camera and computer
costs have come down to the point where hackers on modest budgets can
afford to participate." Members of the digital video community have
called it "[the] Uni lecture I never got but really wanted" and
"Carl
Sagan on speed." The video is released under the Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA license for free redistribution and reuse, and was created
entirely using free and open source software.

The Xiph.Org Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
dedicated to open, unencumbered multimedia technology. Xiph's formats
and software level the playing field for digital media so that all
producers and artists can distribute their work for minimal cost,
without restriction, regardless of affiliation. May contain traces of
nuts.

Great job, guys!

Libre Video coverage of the press release here:

http://www.librevideo.org/blog/2010/09/23/a-digital-media-primer-for-geeks/

Let me know if you need any additional mirroring.

Nice work!
If nobody is doing a German translation, I'll get onto it during my flight
to NY on Monday.
Silvia.


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Xiph.Org announces its first documentary video production: "A Digital
> Media Primer for Geeks"
>
> http://www.xiph.org/video/
>
> "A Digital Media Primer For Geeks" is the first video from
Xiph.Org,
> presenting the technical foundations of modern digital media via a
> half-hour firehose of information. Christopher "Monty"
Montgomery, Red
> Hat engineer and founder of the Xiph.Org project, guides this tour
> through the foundations of digital video. The program offers a brief
> history of digital media, a quick summary of the sampling theorem, and
> myriad details of low-level audio and video characterization and
> formatting. It's intended for budding geeks looking to get into video
> coding, as well as the technically curious who want to know more about
> the media they wrangle for work or play. The video features a wiki
> companion site with transcripts, discussion, and further reading.
>
> "Open Source has conquered and filled much of the original territory
> to which it aspired, but the media frontier, especially video, is
> still wide open and unexplored," Montgomery says. "Camera and
computer
> costs have come down to the point where hackers on modest budgets can
> afford to participate." Members of the digital video community have
> called it "[the] Uni lecture I never got but really wanted" and
"Carl
> Sagan on speed." The video is released under the Creative Commons
> CC-BY-NC-SA license for free redistribution and reuse, and was created
> entirely using free and open source software.
>
> The Xiph.Org Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
> dedicated to open, unencumbered multimedia technology. Xiph's formats
> and software level the playing field for digital media so that all
> producers and artists can distribute their work for minimal cost,
> without restriction, regardless of affiliation. May contain traces of
> nuts.
> _______________________________________________
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> theora at xiph.org
> http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/theora
>
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