Where are those Camp KDE videos anyways?

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Thursday, February 5. 2009

Posted by Jeff Mitchell in jefferai

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Where are those Camp KDE videos anyways?

Hello there. I have good news and bad news regarding the Camp KDE videos.

The Bad News

I've run into a series of setbacks regarding getting them prepared for posting. The first was that the Monday I got back from Jamaica, I had the following schedule at work:

9:15 AM: Check email
9:16 AM: "My details have been confirmed for my upcoming trip? What trip?"
2:00 PM: At the airport awaiting departure, thinking that I knew I should have checked work email sometime over the weekend...

Regardless, I did manage to have some of the files with me, and did actually get a few of the videos done during that week that I was away. I then got held back a bit waiting for the videos on Wade's camera to arrive -- they were 16GB or so in total, and so he had to fetch them off the tapes, encode them, and get them uploaded to me. After that, I started to put Wade's videos together with slides, only to find out that the videos would not properly work inside kdenlive. Or so I thought. After a period of long transcodings that I performed during my free time over the last few days, I find out this morning that the issue with the videos was a massive dose of PEBKAC.

There's only one other piece of bad news, which is that due to a bug in (ffmpeg? libmlt?) kdenlive's Ogg/Theora export is borked. So, I've ended up coding in XviD, which while using a patented algorithm is at least otherwise free software. I've thought about transcoding everything to Ogg/Theora afterwards, and I may end up doing so before posting them up, if the quality is okay. And before you ask -- it didn't seem right to post them up without having Wade's keynote up there to kick things off, which is why I've not posted some of the ones that are already done up before now.

The Good News

The good news is that 11/13 of the videos are done, and I forsee no obstacles in getting the rest of them to behave. So I am hopeful that I can start getting them up to Blip.tv within a couple days. Thanks for bearing with me.

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"Thanks for bearing with me."

Not at all; thanks for sorting all this - I like forward to watching them

Do the kdenlive guys know about the bug, BTW?

#1 Anon on 2009-02-05 13:46 (Reply)

Yes, I think they do...I did email about it, and they told me it was a known problem.

#1.1 jefferai on 2009-02-05 14:16 (Reply)

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