[Audio-video] address@hidden: Videos of your conference in Sophia Antipolis on May 5th 2008]

[Richard M Stallman]

Please put this audio and video on the site.

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From: Jerome Alet <address@hidden>
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Hello,

Regis and me filmed you in Sophia Antipolis on May 5th 2008, and we have 
now put the video Ogg/Theora+Vorbis and audio only (Ogg/Vorbis) files 
online, as well as some pictures.

FYI your conference was streamed live in Ogg/Theora format, and, in 
addition to the people in the amphitheater, around 65 people followed it 
from the Internet and chatted on a dedicated IRC channel. Too bad you 
didn't accept more questions from them, but we know you were tired...

You can view the conference again from :

   http://stream.unice.fr/polytech/rms20080505/

Viewing it from this page requires Java because of the Free Cortado 
applet, but if you don't use Java you can instead (or in addition to) 
download the video+audio and the audio only files from the very same 
page. I've also put some pictures, also available from the same page.

The video+audio file is around 1.3 GB long, and streaming view requires 
around 1.2 Mbits/s of bandwidth at peaks so depending on your available 
bandwidth you may prefer to download the file for later view. The audio 
only file is around 50 MB long, and requires around 66 Kbits/s of bandwidth.

We also have the original video in the DV format, in case you want it 
just ask (beware, it's around 30 GB !)

Compared to when you were angry about us in 2004 because of the use or 
Real products, you'll be glad to learn that in the meantime we have 
entirely conceived and developped the autonomous streaming and recording 
studio we used, named Boxtream (info and download from 
http://boxtream.unice.fr) which is Free Software (GNU GPL 3) using only 
documented hardware or hardware which doesn't need any proprietary driver.

For more than a year and a half now, the Medicine School of Nice streams 
something about 50 hours a week of live courses in the Ogg/Theora format 
for distance learning students, making this probably the biggest volume 
end-to-end entirely Free streaming solution in, at least, higher French 
education : all software used from the encoding backends and servers to 
the clients is Free Software. Unfortunately IMHO the content itself is 
not publicly available but it's a different problem...

bye

Jerome Alet
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