On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Dean Jansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matt, while many FOSS video tools exist, a large percentage leave much > to be desired for the lay creator. Encoding to Theora is a chore (if > not an impossibility) for most non-FOSS oriented creators, and the > list of hard to do stuff goes on... This conference is a place to > improve the tools, educate newcomers, and improve connections and > communication between projects, creators, viewers, etc. As I understand it, there are at least Theora 'encoder codecs' (not sure what the correct term is) for the Mac via QuickTime, which I'd hope feeds into a LOT of those non-free video editing scenarios, but yes, these things need to be improved. I just hope this event sets the right path. When I see "Open Video", it leads me to think that free software is being ignored for some kind of fictional binary Web twenty nonsense. I will try and attend. -- Matt Lee Free Software, etc. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
