Jason D. Clinton wrote: > Unlike the previews from late November, these files can be considered > "done." I have reduced the bandwidth requirements by half while mostly > retaining the same level of quality. (Yay, codec progress!) > > http://people.gnome.org/~jclinton/FoG/ > > I think it would be fine to put these finalized versions in the git > repo. for site development convenience. (I would not put anything this > large which is anticipated to change in to a git repo.) > > There will not be H.264 versions of these files as we cannot pay the > streaming licenses and the FoG target audience is going to be running > a browser which can play Theora or WebM. Also, these files are so > small, bandwidth shouldn't be a concern. > > My suggestion would be to use straight-forward, browser UI, nested > <video> tags to put these on the FoG site update (with the WebM > version on the outside so that it is preferred). The video URL would > be randomly selected from a list that we provide by either client-side > JS or server-side scripting. I also believe that > http://universalsubtitles.org/ is the method by which we should solve > the a11y and i18n challenges; it's crowd sourced via this method. If > there aren't any show-stoppers and no one else steps up to implement > this change, I will implement the suggested site changes. Later, if > bandwidth becomes a problem, perhaps we can distribute the load by > asking people to mirror a video and we can use the same random URL > provider to rotate between mirrors. > > All videos are 720P 30fps with 128Kbit/s Vorbis stereo audio. The WebM > videos targeted 1Mbit/s. The Theora videos targeted 2Mbit/s and have > slightly more artifacting despite being almost twice as large.
Wow, this all looks great! > I am still thinking about what to do about the gnome3.org video > hosting and video format questions as the audience and bandwidth > situation is slightly different. And no solution proposed so far is > perfect. > > I've solved a number of problems with my video workflow (by building a > bunch of stuff from svn and git, by hand) so I can crank the remaining > 10 FoG videos out over the coming days including that re-spin of the > GNOME 3 preview that I have promised. It'll be wonderful to have video material on gnome3.org. > Also, I just today finished assembling a GNOME 3 installation with the > finalized Adwaita theme, the new GNOME font (Cantarell) with git > master OTF hinting, the latest GNOME Shell git, and most of the GNOME > 3 applications in their current state. GNOME 3 is looking *fantastic* > now that the design vision is coming together with the art team's > work. I'm hugely optimistic about the GNOME 3 final product and we are > rapidly approaching the time when producing materials that look > near-identical to the final version becomes achievable. It would be really good to have screenshots from this kind of system for gnome3.org. (Hint hint!) Regarding updates to gnome3.org: it would be good to try and time these so they come in a steady flow rather than all once. That way we can generate regular announcements for the microblogs. Allan -- Blog: https://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list