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 <r...@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 > ⎔ λ 🄯 𝍄 𝌡 𝌚
