[Grassroots-l] The Information Train

[Sean DALY]

Dear Mr. Spinellis,

Your film is of great interest, but some of us can't easily view Flash
video, especially on the XO ;-)

Would you consider making your film available in the Ogg Theora format?

It's easy to transcode from DV or MPEG with the ffmpeg2theora tool
(http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/), for example (assuming 4:3 PAL and
with Ogg container metadata):

$ ./ffmpeg2theora finalcut.dv -x 352 -y 288 -v 2 -S 0 -K 128 -c 1 -H
32000 –artist 'Diomidis D. Spinellis (http://www.spinellis.gr)' –title
'The Information Train' -date 'February 17, 2009' –location 'Wizards
of Science 2009' –organization '' –copyright '(c) 2009 Diomidis D.
Spinellis' –license 'Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
(Greece License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/gr/)' -o
finalcut.theora.ogg

thanks
Sean Daly



On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Eduardo H. Silva <hoboprimate at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would be nice if these videos where also uploaded in formats and to
> places where the XO can view them natively, for example as a ogg
> theora video to the internet archive (archive.org), but there is also
> another place which name I cant remember right now, a kind of
> alternative to youtube.
>
> Eduardo (typing this from a Sugar On A Stick, and so unable to check
> out the videos).
>
> 2009/2/22 Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu>:
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:39 AM,  <s.boutayeb at free.fr> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> For your information, a video with 2 computers (1 XO and a "normal" laptop)
>>> exchanging real world information provided by a train with the help of sensors
>>> and actuators.
>>>
>>> "The Information Train"
>>>
>>> "This movie shows the main elements of a winning entry at the "Wizards of
>>> Science 2009" scientific experiment contest. The entry demonstrates how
>>> computers communicate with each other by setting up a network in which a model
>>> train transfers a picture's pixels from one computer to the other."
>>>
>>> Vidéo :
>>>
>>>    * http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/the-information-train/14494555
>>>    * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXg12lGBzjQ
>>>
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>>
>> Very nice! Twittered!
>>
>> Sameer
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