[webcast-l] Fwd: Call-out for input into FOSS Video Codecs R&D Project

Bill Best bill.best at commedia.org.uk
Fri Apr 20 18:51:39 BST 2007


Fwd:

EngageMedia (http://www.engagemedia.org) is currently conducting a research
project into FOSS video codecs. We may also engage in a bit of experimental
development work as we go along.

We will be coordinating this project, but would love to engage other groups
working around FOSS video software in this process.

These are the major questions we will be addressing in this project:

   * What FOSS codecs are currently available and how do they compare?

   * What is needed within the most popular systems to enable the
     upload and playback of FOSS codecs?

   * What would be required within various systems to implement cortado
     player or another embedded FOSS streaming video solution?

   * A survey of open source flash upload and playback options.

   * The possibility of creating server side auto-transcoding
     applications to take the onus off video producers to encode to
     these formats.

   * Research into the development of a desktop transcoder/uploader
     application that could work locally to encode the file and then
     upload it to a specified site.

   * What desktop tools currently exist that support encoding to open
     source codecs?

   * The practicality of creating a GUI for ffmpeg2theora, or what
     would be needed to implement it into current FOSS transcoding
     applications such as Media Coder, ffmpegx, Virtual Dub and
     Gtranscode.

The core outcome of this report will be a set of recommendations to
promote the implementation of FOSS video codecs within online video
distribution projects working for social change.

There is a wiki-page added for your input on the Transmission wiki here,
with links to further information about the project:
http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Codecs_Input

Or please contact codecs at engagemedia.org

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