On Thu, August 15, 2013 6:39 am, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> On 08/15/2013 12:02 PM, Christian Persch wrote:
>> Yesterday I discovered that the GUADEC videos on
>> http://www.superlectures.com/guadec2013/ are available only in
>> proprietary formats, H.264 for the video and MP3 for the audio-only
>> option.
>>
>> Why aren't they available at least *also* in formats using Free codecs
>> (webm / theora / ogg) ? Preferably they should even be available *only*
>> using Free codecs!
>>
> The most important part of the above message is that GUADEC videos are
> actually available!
> I was really uncertain if this would happen or not, based on experience
> of so many previous GUADEC's where we did recordings but failed to
> publish them. I was really 50/50 on it and didn't want to make any
> promises to people who asked about it.
>
> A big thank you for everyone who made this happen!

Yes! The recordings were done in previous years but the breakdown was with
the video processing. The fact that these were done so quickly is so
exciting.

I would add that making the videos available in a free format was one of
our initial requirements.

karen




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