[GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-27 Thread Christophe Pettus
Greetings, The video recordings of the sessions for PG Day SJC '09 are now available: Version 8.4: Easier to Administer than Ever / Josh Berkus / PostgreSQL Experts http://media.postgresql.org/pgday-sjc-09/pgday-sjc-09-easier.mov Rapid Upgrades with pg_Migrator / Bruce Momjian / Enterpri

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Andreas Wenk
Christophe Pettus schrieb: Greetings, The video recordings of the sessions for PG Day SJC '09 are now available: [snip] Many thanks to Steve Crawford for the audio system and assistance with setup, tear-down, and coordination during the event. -- -- Christophe Pettus x...@thebuild.com H

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Andreas Wenk : > Christophe Pettus schrieb: > > Greetings, > > > > The video recordings of the sessions for PG Day SJC '09 are now available: > > [snip] > > Just a quick question. Wouldn't it be better to provide the videos in flv > format in a > player in this page. Since I ha

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Andreas Wenk
Bill Moran schrieb: > While I've no objection to someone helping out by converting files, I find it odd that flv is suggested. I've yet to find anything that can play flv files on my FreeBSD desktop machine. I'm pretty sure mplayer can play mov files ... I guess I'll find out this evening when

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Andreas Wenk wrote: > Bill Moran schrieb: >  > While I've no objection to someone helping out by converting files, I >> >> find it odd that flv is suggested.  I've yet to find anything that can >> play flv files on my FreeBSD desktop machine.  I'm pretty sure mplaye

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Andreas Wenk
Greg Stark schrieb: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Andreas Wenk wrote: Why not use a standardized openly documented container format like mpeg4 with mpeg4 part 2 compression instead of one controlled by a single company like flv or quicktime? That would let people play it using any of various o

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Christophe Pettus
On Jul 28, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Andreas Wenk wrote: another good approach. I understand the point of view. But this menas to download the files anyway because playing mpeg files in the browser is the same as with mov files - I think. Historically, MOV has been the least-bad container format; F

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Andreas Wenk
Christophe Pettus schrieb: Historically, MOV has been the least-bad container format; Flash support on anything besides Windows has, traditionally, been very spotty. The files themselves are pretty much the same size; FLV is (as noted) a container format, not a codec, and the video is H.264

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Christophe Pettus
On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Andreas Wenk wrote: uh - HTML 5 is supported by the browser when? Currently, the tag is supported by Firefox 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Chrome 3 (in alpha, I believe), iPhone 3. That being said, we can do a fallback to Quicktime, then to a Flash client, all the wa

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Andreas Wenk
Christophe Pettus schrieb: On Jul 28, 2009, at 8:35 AM, Andreas Wenk wrote: uh - HTML 5 is supported by the browser when? Currently, the tag is supported by Firefox 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Chrome 3 (in alpha, I believe), iPhone 3. That being said, we can do a fallback to Quicktime, then to a

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Christophe Pettus wrote: > > Historically, MOV has been the least-bad container format; Flash support on > anything besides Windows has, traditionally, been very spotty.  The files > themselves are pretty much the same size; FLV is (as noted) a container > format, n

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Christophe Pettus
On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Greg Stark wrote: In reality I would be pretty happy with any page that had a link at the bottom to download an mpeg format file with H.264 data in it that mplayer can play. Well, mplayer claims it can play MOV, and the files are H.264, so assuming the mplayer do

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread John R Pierce
Greg Stark wrote: I think I'm scarred from Quicktime files because they often were encoded with codecs like Sorensen which produced proprietary formats. agreed, and the quicktime installer dragging in itunes if you don't remember to uncheck all the right boxes, and quicktime nagging you to

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread Greg Stark
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:10 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > Greg Stark wrote: >> >> I think I'm scarred from Quicktime files because they often were >> encoded with codecs like Sorensen which produced proprietary formats. >> >> > > agreed, and the quicktime installer dragging in itunes if you don't re

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-28 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Andreas Wenk wrote: > Christophe Pettus schrieb: >> Greetings, >> >> The video recordings of the sessions for PG Day SJC '09 are now available: > > [snip] > >> Many thanks to Steve Crawford for the audio system and assistance with >> setup, tear-down, and

Re: [GENERAL] Video available for PGDay SJC '09

2009-07-29 Thread Andreas Wenk
David Fetter schrieb: Just a quick question. Wouldn't it be better to provide the videos in flv format in a player in this page. Since I have a MAC, I have no problems viewing the videos. But with my Linux box and FF 3.5 I can't. You can use xine on your Linux box :) Cheers, David. David, t