Does it mean those 10s of Gigs are all gonna be uploaded to the FTP server? As the end user, do I
really need those huge chunks of video? The question will be, what for?
A bit of consideration should be taken into care. End viewers of the video should at least be taken into consideration, thus not going in for an overkill option.
I'm wondering who will dedicate 10+Gig of his data plan to watch an hour video of Wikimania in HDV.
If the end user needs a SD quality of video, why use HDV to record? I'm sure HDV isn't used because its the latest technology or something of that sort.
Steeply stripping down from those huge files to something plausible within 6 hours, I don't think is beyond reach.
Production houses get their final videos somewhere 50Gig+ per hour (some reaching over 100Gig per hour for animations). But these videos reach the viewers somewhere around 700mb, but lose in quality is highly and relatively negligible.
The tools are there, systems are in place. If there's a will, there's a way! If only Wikimania wants it to work, the way to do that is available.
On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Daniel Schwen wrote:
Yeah, while it would be nice to have the raw video I think you may
have a wrong idea here.
HDV video has about 10GB per hour.
8 parallel sessions
4.5h per day per session
3 days (last day a bit shorter)
With that I get about one TB of raw video data.
Good luck uploading that to an FTP server...
Also, getting the data off of various cams takes a lot of time. I
don't see how they could have done it in time to hand it to
participants.
Daniel
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Nkansah Rexford
<nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sharing videos are so important. This is what I suggest.
>
> At the end of the wikimania, all videos shot (even if up to 15+ Gig) should
> be available for any attendee to copy onto their external hard drive or
> personal computer to take along to his/her originating country. At their
> home countries, they can share those videos directly also with their
> wikimedian friends who couldn't make it to the event.
>
> Like myself, I could have gotten the videos easily from Sandister, which
> will be less costly, convenient, and faster to get instead of downloading or
> watching online.
>
> I don't know of data costs in other parts of the world, but from where I am,
> downloading/watching online videos really cost. Plus, the down streaming
> speed isn't good.
>
> Summary: Make all recorded videos available at the end of the event for
> anyone interested to copy (perhaps in an intranet) before person returns to
> their countries. Sharing of the videos should be decentralized.
>
> rexford
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, Michael Peel wrote:
>>
>> Hi Deryck,
>>
>> It's great to hear that the parallel sessions were recorded. :-) As a
>> suggestion: those that are asking for these videos might also be willing to
>> help edit and upload those videos to Commons. Would you be willing to share
>> the raw recordings with interested individuals so that they could do so?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>> (who is not volunteering edit video recordings here! Although I can
>> provide some FTP storage for video files if that would be useful.)
>>
>> On 28 Aug 2013, at 22:08, Deryck Chan <deryckchan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > All the sessions held in the Jockey Club Auditorium are still available
>> > on livestream:
>> > http://new.livestream.com/socreclive/wikimania
>> >
>> > The other sessions have been recorded but will take some time to be
>> > uploaded. (Expect this to take a few months based on past experience - we
>> > only have volunteers!)
>> >
>> >
>> > On 28 August 2013 18:18, Quiddity <pandiculation@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Nkansah Rexford wrote:
>> > Please, can I get a link to watch some of the WMHK videos online? Or
>> > they're not yet out?
>> >
>> > rex
>>