Hello everybody ! When i last saw Puneet's work in flash it gave me some ideas... first that i really think we need a advertisement video to play on loop on booth for example! People really like videos. I'm introducing here what i've done tonight, the beginning of a video introducing Fedora Core. It is still in development, i have many ideas about a lot of things. Here it is : http://www.mrtomlinux.org/fedora-movie.avi (2Mo) To play it, even if it no kind of divx video, i was not able to play it with totem, but xine, without any properietary codec read it very well. I would like to have feedbacks, as many as possible, about speed, visual effects and the more important, content. For the moment i am adding the headlines the the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview page, i don't think i will include them all. The file format has not been decided yet, i don't think i will keep this raw avi file format. Well, tell me what you think! Thanks, Thomas canniot

How do you convert into ogg? Already on the wiki? It's not finished yet :p

Thomas, although the ffmpeg2theora software you talk about on the Wiki page is open source, it is not "free," because it depends on the legally encumbered ffmpeg software to function.

Thanks again for your enthusiasm and contribution. I'm sure the group can figure out the right answer shortly.

Le dimanche 26 mars 2006 à 08:44 +0530, Tejas Dinkar a écrit : > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:03 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > Thanks again for your enthusiasm and contribution. I'm sure the group > > can figure out the right answer shortly. > > In short, paul++ > > I compare this to an open source program written in proprietary Java. > OK :) Here is the video in ogg theora. The avi file doesn't exist anymore! http://mrtomlinux.org/fedora-movie.ogg The video has been updated a bit, i found it too fast however. I have to fix that.

Le dimanche 26 mars 2006 à 09:34 -0500, Paul W. Frields a écrit : > On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 10:27 +0200, Thomas Canniot wrote: > > Le dimanche 26 mars 2006 à 08:44 +0530, Tejas Dinkar a écrit : > > > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:03 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > > > Thanks again for your enthusiasm and contribution. I'm sure the group > > > > can figure out the right answer shortly. > > > > > > In short, paul++ > > > > > > I compare this to an open source program written in proprietary Java. > > > > > OK :) > > > > Here is the video in ogg theora. The avi file doesn't exist anymore! > > > > http://mrtomlinux.org/fedora-movie.ogg > > > > The video has been updated a bit, i found it too fast however. I have to > > fix that. > > Thomas (Canniot), can you get in touch with Thomas (Chung) and put up a > new wiki page describing to people how you can create these movies in a > non-proprietary format, and convert to Ogg? I don't know much about > video formats, so I'm hoping you two could report on the tools available > on, or for, Fedora to do some of this stuff. That would be really > helpful for people who want to get into the creative aspects. > > The point is not necessarily that we have to do all of this ON Fedora, > because the products available on our platform right now are not as > efficient as some of the proprietary solutions. But maybe we can help > figure out, at the same time as we're creating materials, where the gaps > are in the toolchain, so they can be addressed. > Well, i searched a bit about converting avi videos files into ogg theora, and the only viable thing i found was ffmpeg2theora, which is also the only converter available from theora.org. Their link to http://www.dogphilosophy.net/SECTION-Technical_Stuff/ogg-theora-microhowt... is broken, too bad really. Thomas Canniot

On 3/27/06, Thomas Canniot <thomas.canniot(a)laposte.net&gt; wrote: > Here it is! > > I think it is the last version, please tell me what you think about it, > if something is missing or not, if there is any problem, tell me! > > It is available from > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours/FedoraCore5 > > The file is fedora-movie.ogg. > > Thanks! > > Thomas Canniot Excellent! Thank you for great work! Regards, -- Thomas Chung http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:03 -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote: > Thanks again for your enthusiasm and contribution. I'm sure the group > can figure out the right answer shortly. In short, paul++ I compare this to an open source program written in proprietary Java.