You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
It’s a technical and necessary listening for all who works with audio and video.
Xiph.Org Video Presentations: A Digital Media Primer for Geeks.
The program offers a brief history of digital media, a quick summary of the sampling theorem, and myriad details of low level audio and video characterization and formatting. It’s intended for budding geeks looking to get into video coding, as well as the technically curious who want to know more about the media they wrangle for work or play.
via xkcd: Password Reuse.
From the EFF
EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers
Rulemaking Fixes Critical DMCA Wrongs
San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now, could have been sued for their non-infringing or fair use activities.…
Wired.com on the story.
Ars Technica also explains
from sciencetoymaker.org
The day is still young enough to read the gospel against DRM.
From a favorite podcast by the British Museum and the BBC, “A history of the world in 100 objects“. Olmec stone mask, about 900-400BC, Mexico.
I am always looking for good tools to do slideshows. Imagination so far delivers clean good quality video, I like the fact that it works of sox and ffmpeg; it outputs flv, ogv and vob.
P.S. The ogg video in this post was made with imagination. The Free Software Foundation advocates the merits of ogg and html5, which I support.
It comes with a creative commons license.