[Grassroots-l] The Information Train

[Diomidis Spinellis]

Sean,

I'm sorry for failing to provide the video in an open encoding format. 
I'm a rookie with video production (a week ago I didn't know what DV 
was), and therefore bound to make mistakes.  I've now made available the 
video in Ogg Theora format on the project's web page: 
<http://www.spinellis.gr/itrain>.  Many thanks for your detailed 
transcoding instructions.

Cheers,

Diomidis
-- 
Professor Diomidis Spinellis
Department of Management Science and Technology
Athens University of Economics and Business
Patision 76, GR-104 34 Athens, GREECE  +30 2108203981
http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/ mailto:dds at aueb.gr

Sean DALY wrote:
> 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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