Video/Audio quality is top notch. Watching in full screen works very well. Minor point, but doesn't seem to me like you can embed these videos......
- Graham Steel
Might be worth trying to record from screen while playing to separate them out...
- Cameron Neylon
Aye. But I personally ain't any good (yet) at that kinda stuff. Nice seeing how Chris captured all of this from what would appear to be 3 remote cameras controlled and focused from his laptop with the assistance from his assistant. I would guess that possibly folks at MER assisted in slide syncs etc. Overall result in my book at least is darn good and was well worth the short wait.
- Graham Steel
Is there any chance that the video end up in a easier accessible (open?) format in the near future?
- Konrad Förstner
All the Silverlight does is play a wmv file and sync it up with the slides. Without installing it you can still click 'next slide' manually and "loading" will be gone and you can see the slides. The wmv files can be downloaded with following links. Session 1: http://bit.ly/9NJUoL Session 2: http://bit.ly/bwuntB Session 3: http://bit.ly/9QIt1G Session 4: http://bit.ly/aDKv7i
- Tom
Thanks for the hint, Tom. I should have written it in a different way. Why does an organization that promotes open data and open standards etc. offers videos (only) in a proprietary format?
- Konrad Förstner
Okay, I know: because it's easier. Still waiting for HTML5 with the <video> tag ... Sorry, for the noise.
- Konrad Förstner
True. Proprietary video about open data and open standards, gotta love the irony. (sidenote: the wmv's do play fine in opensource VLC)
- Tom
(yup, worked also with mplayer - thanks to reverse engineering)
- Konrad Förstner
Konrad The issue lies with the organization hosting the videos, the University of Washington. They support the videos for free but they have some limitations. We did work with them to make these videos as open as possible - normally the UW videos can only be viewed in IE (and yes that is because of UW, not because of Microsoft) - but there was only so much we could do with their...
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- Lisa Green
PS Tom is right, works fine in VLC. VLC is great and I use it for almost everything.
- Lisa Green
Thanks for your reply Lisa. I wouldn't be aware of anything completely open that offers streaming (not sure about Kaltura http://corp.kaltura.com/). Hopefully HTML5 based solutions will pop up in the near future (e.g. youtube is experimenting with this http://www.youtube.com/html5). Until that I would appreciate a link (basically the one Tom scraped out of the code) to the plain video...
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- Konrad Förstner
Sorry to report that we are still waiting on the Science Commons Symposium video taken by the Microsoft Research team. As of 9am this morning there was someone (a reliable, intelligent someone) from MSR "looking into it".
Every time I do an event I try hard to make sure that there will be video available quickly. Every time I tell the current people (MSR AV team in this case) about how long it took for past events and every time they are surprised and say sympathetically "oh that won't happen with *our* video, we will have it online a day or two after the event". Every time it takes ages to get the video online and we lose momentum. Sigh.
- Lisa Green
That's why I usually do a Camtasia recording as well just in case - but I just went with the flow this time....
- Jean-Claude Bradley
Keep us posted, I'm really hanging out for audio from the bits of sessions I missed in the live stream.
- mike seyfang
I was up at MER yesterday and they said that if it wasn't up soon (and accessible with non-windows, non-IE systems) then they would find "another solution"
- Cameron Neylon
<bump> I take it that there is still no progress on this.
- Graham Steel
Well we have URLs now, they are not active, but they are the URLs that will lead to the video when UW posts them :/
- Lisa Green
Read the comment just before the posted url's: "they are not active, but they are the URLs that will lead to the video when UW posts them" So probably still waiting on them "looking into it"
- Tom
just as a sidenote, this is why conference tweeting / blogging and posting your own presentation can be invaluable. I think the experience is probably universal that the conference says "we'll have the presentations up next week" and "next week" turns into some time between next month and never.
- Richard Akerman
from BuddyFeed
Video links are live!! And they work in Firefox and Iron/Chrome just as well as they work in IE! But the URLs changed :/ Find the new links here http://ff.im/gSpXq
- Lisa Green