This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Debian Lenny.
Read more »Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Lenny)
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Fencing and Tollgating the Internet
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What journalists are missing out on is that H.264 is a patented codec, and that the patent holders expect to collect royalties. The last H.264 patents expire in 2028. Mr. Blizzard draws some apt parallels with GIF and MP3, and the problems caused when patented, royalty-burdened technologies collide with a supposedly open and unencumbered Web.
Read more »Here We Go Again: Video Standards War 2010
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Think of the words "standards war," and unless you're a standards wonk like m...oh, never mind...you're likely to think of the battle between the Betamax and VHS video tape formats
Read more »New Video Teaches You About The Ubuntu Release Schedule
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The Ubuntu release schedule isn't always clear to everyone. There's the regular releases, the LTS releases, server releases, and Alpha, Beta, Omega, and Zeta releases. OK, the last two were fake, but it can all get pretty confusing to new users.
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Songbird 1.5 gets Video Playback Feature
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Songbrid has gained video playback capabilities in the beta for forthcoming 1.5.0 release "Led Zepplin".
Read more »The GStreamer, Cairo Video Hackfest Results
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Last month we talked about a hackfest to improve Linux video playback that came about after a GNOME developer began work on using Cairo/Pixman for raw video in GStreamer and looking at other ways to leverage hardware acceleration within this major open-source multimedia framework.
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When it comes to video playback on Linux, the premiere choice for video acceleration is currently using VDPAU with its CPU-efficient, GPU-accelerated capabilities that even has no problems playing 1080p video files with extremely low-end hardware.
Read more »FSF wants a video of you
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The FSF is launching a new advocacy campaign, and we'd love to have you involved. One of the most important tasks for us at FSF is to help foster the understanding that free software is crucial to a free society, and that citizens should switch to free software at home and in their own work, for freedom's sake.
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The Ubuntu Installation Guide
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This Ubuntu installation guide is available to anyone for free. Once you've completed this guide you'll be able to install Ubuntu and have a good understanding of the options on each step of the install. Users should also be able to perform a manual installation of Ubuntu after using this Ubuntu installation guide. A step by step video tutorial is included with this guide.
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Firefox 3.6 Aims to Bring Fullscreen, Open Source Video to the Web
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Current developer builds of Firefox 3.6, expected to arrive later this year, now include a fullscreen option for movies embedded using the HTML5 video tag.
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Theora 1.1 is released – what you should know
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Less than a year after the release of Theora 1.0, the wonderful people at Xiph have released Theora 1.1. The 1.1 release is a software-only release of the Theora encoder and decoder. It does not include any changes to the Theora format.
Read more »Booting Moblin v2 beta live image using an USB drive
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Once you have burned an USB drive with a Moblin v2 image, you can follow the steps shown in the video in order to boot a live Moblin v2 image.
Read more »Upgrade To The Latest FFmpeg and x264 in Ubuntu Intrepid and Jaunty
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A while ago I posted some fixed ffmpeg and x264 packages for Ubuntu Jaunty (.deb) but you may want to upgrade to the latest version of ffmpeg and x264 (whichever the latest version is). So this how-to will explain how to install the latest FFmpeg and x264 and then how to always update those packages. Read on!
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Download OpenShot, A Great New Linux Video Editor, in Ubuntu .deb Package
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A while ago I was telling you about a new Linux non-linear video editor with some great features, called OpenShot. At the time of that post, you needed to compile OpenShot to be able to use it, but now you can download the latest version, 0.9.22 (Developer Preview) in Ubuntu .deb packages.
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ffmpeg Cheat Sheet - 19 Best Practices
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ffmpeg is a multiplatform, open-source library for video and audio files. It is usualy available in your distribution repositories, so search for it and install it.
This article will present 19 ffmpeg very useful commands.
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