Preparing movie of Bryce's talk (was Re: Smalltalk party and Exupery)

Daniel Vainsencher danielv at techunix.technion.ac.il
Thu Mar 16 10:01:16 UTC 2006


That is great :-)

goran at krampe.se wrote:

>Hi fellas!
>
>Bryce Kampjes <bryce at kampjes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>  
>
>>Michael Haupt writes:
>> > 
>> > > Last night on IRC, I think I heard Goran mention he was doing a
>> > > write-up and converting Bryce's slides, so I'd say that there's a
>> > > decent chance of that happening.
>> > 
>> > Oh, great; something to look forward to! :-)
>>
>>But it'll have to be after Smalltalk Solutions because I'm giving my
>>talk there so I don't want it published until after that.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, I have a writeup about to be published, not super long, but at
>least a writeup. Will try to get it up today.
>
>No, I haven't been converting any slides (Bryce just mentioned he
>decided to make all new slides for StS).
>
>But one thing is fun:
>
>I have 60 minutes of Bryce's presentation in Brussels on my Linux laptop
>in miniDV format (14Gb). I took great care in filming each slide and
>switching back and forth to Bryce and the slides are definitely readable
>because I zoomed max. The tape ended before Bryce was finished - but I
>only lost the last minutes and IIRC that was mostly "smalltalk" :).
>
>Bryce and I have agreed that I can throw up this movie together with
>some kind of handouts possibly (from Bryce) at the *exact moment* that
>Bryce speaks at StS! :) So all of us not being able to be there can at
>least enjoy the rehearsal presentation from Brussels and perhaps join up
>at IRC to talk about it.
>
>I played last night with encoding the movie in DivX or XviD using
>mencoder - if anyone has a perfect oneliner that goes well with miniDV
>(dv2 format) I gladly am all ears. I toyed around and read lots of
>webpages and learned a lot - but it is really a jungle. 
>
>My pre-conclusion is to use the XviD codec (2 passes) with mp3 (mp3lame,
>variable bitrate) for sound since it apparently is one of the best
>around.
>
>regards, Göran
>
>PS. For next party we should bring more tapes and a power adaptor (so
>that the battery in the camera doesn't run out) and take turns filming.
>We could turn these parties into net events that people can "attend"
>virtually and discuss together on IRC.
>
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