[Foundation-l] Donation of DVDs to Wikimedia Foundation Projects

[Robert Scott Horning]

Bryan Tong Minh wrote:

>If the files were to be converted to ogg theora (which they should;
>mpeg2 isn't free, neither in speech nor beer), they would take
>approximately 500 MB per hour. (rough estimation). So how many dvd's
>are we talking about?
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>Bryan
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This appears to be the taped lectures of an enitre university-level 
calculus course.  It could be as much as about 200 hours of instruction 
or more (if it is a full year's worth of lectures).  I'm guessing even 
with some significant compression, this would still be more than a dozen 
DVDs.

Of course that would be multiple files in theory, if you could have each 
lecture as a seperate file, but that would be just for convience to get 
this accomplished.

On the positive side, since it is just a lecture the audio might need to 
be good, but the video doesn't need to be the absolutely highest quality 
and could be reduced in size to reduce space/bandwidth.

-- 
Robert Scott Horning