Hi Tony, I forwarded your message to a buddy who works on UDS planning. I'll let you / the list know if he has any advice or anything is changed.
Best, Greg Tony Baechler <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi all, > >I realize that this has nothing to do with UDS registration, but the >mail >reminded me of something which has bothered me for a while. > >How can one get complete downloadable archives? Before people tell me >to go >to YouTube, let me explain. I'm totally blind and I really don't want >the >video. I just throw the video away anyway and extract the audio >stream. I >know that there is an audio mirror, but it's not official and is a >capture >of the live mp3 streams. While there seems to be a lot of material >there, >(16 GB per summit) some sessions are incomplete and/or broken and some >are >missing audio, so you have a silent mp3 file. Also, YouTube downloads >are >very slow and problematic, even with youtube-dl. > >If you look at the Linux.Conf.Au archives, the Debian conference videos >and >FOSDEM videos, they're all nicely downloadable and it isn't hard to >extract >the audio. I really wish Ubuntu would do something similar for UDS >archives. They do have video of a couple from quite a while ago, but >nothing recent. For the last two, I've used the unofficial mirror, but >I >know that one of them (N or O, I'm not remembering) is missing half of >the >content and prior summits aren't there at all. > >Does anyone here have any suggestions or ideas? Could someone perhaps >talk >to the UDS people in charge to get them to set up a mirror system for >the >video archives? I unfortunately don't have the bandwidth to host such >a >mirror, but I would be happy to upload the extracted audio somewhere >for >others who don't want or need the video. > >Thanks for any ideas or suggestions that you might have. If I can help > >somehow, please let me know. > > > >-- >Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list >[email protected] >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
