This fantastic 45-minute olpc documentary, perhaps the best olpc documentary I have ever seen, just aired on German/French TV channel Arte: <a href="http://lavafilm.com/en/p_laptop.html" target="_blank">http://lavafilm.com/en/p_laptop.html</a><br>
<br>Directed by Chiara Sambuchi<br><br>I recorded a 2500kbit/s Mpeg4 of it, but I wouldn't want to distribute it online at my <a href="http://olpc.tv" target="_blank">http://olpc.tv</a> without the consent of the film markers so I contacted <a href="http://lavafilm.com" target="_blank">http://lavafilm.com</a> with a suggestion that they allow the distribution of the documentary film online and I hope they will reply.<br>
<br>I sent <a href="mailto:info@lavafilm.com" target="_blank">info@lavafilm.com</a> these suggestions:<br><br>- Would you please upload your documentary to Youtube in HD quality.<br><br>- I suggest you upload 3 versions to Youtube in HD quality, English, French and German<br>
<br>- If you are unable to upload it for technical reasons (your
Youtube account doesn't support more than 10 minute uploads for now?),
let me know if you would allow me to upload a version I recorded over
Composite to Archos 2500kbit/s Mpeg4 VGA resolution. I can upload that
to my <a href="http://youtube.com/charbax" target="_blank">http://youtube.com/charbax</a> if you would allow me. You can pick Title, Description and Tags. My suggest would be to link to <a href="http://lavafilm.com/" target="_blank">http://lavafilm.com</a> and your email for "interested TV Stations can contact: <a href="mailto:info@lavafilm.com" target="_blank">info@lavafilm.com</a> for licencing it for TV Broadcasts."<br>
<br>- If you would publish this video online, I think you may reach
hundreds of thousands of views online on the whole documentary. This
would be a great promotion for your film and it would be great for the
olpc project as well. I would gladly help you to try to get as many
views on the documentary as possible. I think it would be a great
promotion for your distribution of the film.<br>
<br>- If you setup a Partner Youtube account, you can eventually make
money on Youtube with overlay advertising as well, and even with
pay-per-view eventually.<br><br>Let's see what they reply. Although I guess one can usually be quite pessimistic about any Broadcast company allowing for any type of online distribution, as their business is to sell the exclusive rights to TV channels. Maybe I could email a URL of the video on my FTP server to the people of the olpc mailing list, I recorded the French version.<br>
<br>Officially it may be available to stream at a low quality at:<br>
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<a href="http://plus7.arte.tv/de/1697660,CmC=3107554.html" target="_blank">http://plus7.arte.tv/de/1697660,CmC=3107554.html</a><br><br>But may only be available within France and Germany, and it may only be available from that link for 7 days.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>Charbax,<br>Nicolas Charbonnier<br>