Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-19 Thread David Crossley
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > Is it possible to also make each soundtrack available as a > > separate resource? > > [choke] yeh, wel, suree. I'll try to see what I can > do, but don't expect anything. Sorry, didn't mean you. Anyone will do. I thought

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-19 Thread Gianugo Rabellino
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: What does the word "Amarcord" mean. No answer from dictionary.com and i gather it is Italian. Is it another of your fine and fitting terms? Don't know the origin of the word but it's originally a movie by Federico Fellini http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-19 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
David Crossley wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Thanks for doing this Stefano. It sounds like a big effort on your part, but well worth it for all of us. Expected size per presentation is around 50Mb/60Mb, which isn't bad at all. In case you have suggestions, yell now because each mistake is 8 h

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-19 Thread David Crossley
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Thanks for doing this Stefano. It sounds like a big effort on your part, but well worth it for all of us. > Expected size per presentation is around 50Mb/60Mb, which isn't bad at > all. > > In case you have suggestions, yell now because each mistake is 8 hours > of pr

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-15 Thread Jeremy Quinn
On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: Actually, know what? the encoding is so slow that I could transfer while encoding hmmm, does anybody know how to do this? like a SSH-thru symlink? Just a thought . it's probably too late now . The MacOSX Finder

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-15 Thread Jorg Heymans
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 12:12 Europe/Rome, Andrew Savory wrote: On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 08:47 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: sounds good. question: does "helix code" include support for SMIL? Not sure what you mean by "helix code"? www.helixcommunity.

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-15 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 12:12 Europe/Rome, Andrew Savory wrote: On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 08:47 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: sounds good. question: does "helix code" include support for SMIL? Not sure what you mean by "helix code"? www.helixcommunity.org, the open source version of

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-15 Thread Andrew Savory
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 08:47 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > sounds good. question: does "helix code" include support for SMIL? Not sure what you mean by "helix code"? The available free-to-download real players will play smil, with a few workarounds (like making the url .ram which poin

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-15 Thread Jeremy Quinn
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 08:47 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: On Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003, at 18:37 Europe/Rome, Andrew Savory wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: that would rock. don't know if there is a SMIL player for linux, though. Realplayer8 will (just about) do it. We

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003, at 18:37 Europe/Rome, Andrew Savory wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: that would rock. don't know if there is a SMIL player for linux, though. Realplayer8 will (just about) do it. We'd already decided here that we'd re-record David's presentation (wi

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-14 Thread Andrew Savory
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > that would rock. don't know if there is a SMIL player for linux, though. Realplayer8 will (just about) do it. We'd already decided here that we'd re-record David's presentation (with all powerpoint effects and a steinway ;-) and use it as an exempla

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003, at 12:28 Europe/Rome, Jeremy Quinn wrote: On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 03:19 AM, Antonio Gallardo wrote: Great job Stefano! I hope soon we will be able to download it from the Apache website! ;) One thought If we have jpegs or gifs of the slides used in the p

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-14 Thread Jeremy Quinn
On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 03:19 AM, Antonio Gallardo wrote: Great job Stefano! I hope soon we will be able to download it from the Apache website! ;) One thought If we have jpegs or gifs of the slides used in the presentations, we could provide the movies wrapped as interactive SMI

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-14 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Stefano Mazzocchi dijo: > for linux, VideoLan or Mplayer should work right out of the box. I already used Xine and looks like a good option too. Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003, at 11:05 Europe/Rome, Nils Mueller wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I started processing the GT video tapes. Hey Stefano, how's progress on those videos? On friday Joerg and I will try to bring our co-workers up to speed on latest Cocoon developments and I'd love to be

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-14 Thread Nils Mueller
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I started processing the GT video tapes. Hey Stefano, how's progress on those videos? On friday Joerg and I will try to bring our co-workers up to speed on latest Cocoon developments and I'd love to be able to show them David's performance. Any chance of that being dow

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-11 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On Saturday, Oct 11, 2003, at 06:01 Europe/Rome, Geoff Howard wrote: Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I started processing the GT video tapes. Each talk is about 50/60 minutes long, DV compression is about 10Gb/hour. Means that I have to process 60Gb of stuff. ... It needs 8 hours per hour on my G4 1Gh

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-10 Thread Geoff Howard
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: I started processing the GT video tapes. Each talk is about 50/60 minutes long, DV compression is about 10Gb/hour. Means that I have to process 60Gb of stuff. ... It needs 8 hours per hour on my G4 1Ghz (at max processing quality). This means that it would take me 1.5

Re: [OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-10 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Great job Stefano! I hope soon we will be able to download it from the Apache website! ;) Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo

[OT] Digital Video Amarcord

2003-10-10 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
I started processing the GT video tapes. Each talk is about 50/60 minutes long, DV compression is about 10Gb/hour. Means that I have to process 60Gb of stuff. I have everything on tape, luckily enough, because I have only 20Gb of disk left ("only 20gb of disk", can you believe that I thought th