[Foundation-l] Since Egypt has shutdown internet, should we too?

[geni]

On 29 January 2011 00:16, aude <aude.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> They have posted one video now, and working on putting more up.
>
> http://cc.aljazeera.net/asset/language/arabic/footage-egyptian-protests-al-jazeera-office
>
> It's CC-BY licensed.
>
> I'm pretty technical, but if someone better with video wants to help convert
> it to ogg theora format and get it uploaded to Commons, that would be
> awesome.
>
> Cheers,
> Katie


I've used VLC's transcoder to produce a quick and dirty theora version:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al_jazeera_2011_egypt_protests.ogv

A bit of work with ffmpeg would produce something far better.
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geni