Re: Hyperbole Talk Video cut into sections for topic-base viewing

[Robert Weiner]

Good ideas.  We’ll work on addressing these this week.

-- Bob

> On Mar 29, 2021, at 2:07 AM, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> 
> * Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org> [2021-03-29 05:14]:
>> I have just released a video of a talk I gave last year but carved up into
>> short sections on each topic that you can jump to by clicking 'SHOW MORE'
>> in the description.  Have a look.
>> 
>> View it here:
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKwZHSbHmPg
> 
> Thank you. That is nice, but not as accessible for everybody. Possible
> problems is with running proprietary Javascript, and censorships of
> websites in various countries. YouTube was censored in country where I
> am located for months. Then it requires me to use VPN or proxy or
> similar, which is then also somehow censored in network.
> 
> Consider also publishing on video systems like https://open.tube
> 
> But I can download that video from
> https://www.youtubepp.com/watch?v=WKwZHSbHmPg -- see "pp" in the
> domain name -- but it appears very large.
> 
> Bash function to convert video to webm which will reduce its size:
> 
> function video2webm () {
>    bitrate=$1;
>    shift;
>    for file in "$@";
>    do out=${file%.*}.webm;
>       ffmpeg -y -i "$file" -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v $bitrate -pass 1 -speed 4 
> -c:a libopus -f webm /dev/null -async 1 -vsync passthrough && \
>       ffmpeg -i "$file" -c:v libvpx-vp9 -b:v $bitrate -pass 2 -speed 1 -c:a 
> libopus "$out" -async 1 -vsync passthrough;
>    done;
> }
> 
> You run as: video2webm 300k video.mp4
> 
> Bitrate decides upon it, like 300k bitrate or 500k bitrate.
> 
> By the way, you can prepare video for Internet and always host it
> yourself, or on GNU servers, including in the repository of Hyperbole,
> right? 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Jean Louis
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