HTML5
Note: more programming is being announced every day, and everything here is subject to change.
Seminar: How to Build an HTML5 player
HTML5, the next version of the HTML language, integrates support for video, making video a first class citizen of the Web. It also includes support for SVG, a 2D vector graphic language. Using the HTML5 media API and open source authoring tools such as inkscape, this live coding session will demonstrate how to develop from scratch your own interface for playing videos in HTML, using standardized Web technologies. This session will also highlight best-in-class HTML5 video players.
Presenters:
Chris Blizzard — Mozilla
Philippe Le Hegaret — W3C
Steve Heffernan — VideoJS and Zencoder
Jeroen Wijering — LongTail Video
Seminar: State of Media Accessibility
Accessibility of audiovisual content is essential for all users, including international users and users with sensory impairments. The Web has a strong tradition of accessibility, but video has lagged in becoming truly and universally accessible.
Subtitles, captions, audio descriptions, and alternative text for audio-visual content is a big step towards creating accessible content. Accessibility expert Silvia Pfeiffer will present the current state of HTML5 technology wrt accessibility features, existing markup conventions, and what markup is still missing.
Presenters:
Silvia Pfeiffer — Mozilla, xiph.org, WHATWG
Seminar: HTML5 Video and Advertising
Advertising in web video represents a significant portion of the revenue model of most video hosting sites. Ad networks and platforms are now racing to develop HTML5 video solutions that match their Flash counterparts. In this session we compare and contrast solutions available from several vendors, discuss some technology hurdles and how to address them.
Presenters:
Justin Day — CTO of Blip.tv
Chris White — Freewheel
Jason Burke — VP of Product, ScanScout
Seminar: Frontiers of Video on the Web: Lessons Learned From Opera
Details TBA.
Presenters:
Philip Jagenstedt, Opera
Seminar: Streaming in Open Formats
In this session, we explore the advantages of a system and network architecture based on open source that enables fast integration of any format and any device. Learn about browser-native HTML5 streaming solutions using h264, WebM (VP8) and Ogg Theora.
Presenter:
Thomas Vander Stichele — CTO and co-founder, Flumotion
Seminar: Swift Delivery of HTML5 Video Using P2P
Learn about the Swift protocol, a solution for delivering HTML5 video using P2P technology. See a live demonstration of the Swift browser extension and learn about the future of P2P-based video hosting.
Switching from HTTP to peer-to-peer delivery is just a simple URL-rewriting step in publishing pages. This protocol is specifically intended to be used with the new HTML5 media elements <video> and <audio>. The protocol is the first peer-to-peer video protocol to be integrated with a Web browser and was developed in cooperation with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Presenter:
Arno Bakker — Delft University of Technology
Open source
Featured talk: Jean Baptiste-Kempf, The Past Present and Future of VLC
The VLC player, by the non-profit VideoLAN project, is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files. It’s also some of the best software around. With nearly half a billion downloads, it’s among the most ubiquitous and indispensable open source projects in history. Jean-Baptiste Kempf of VideoLAN will talk about the genesis of VideoLAN, the difficulties in creating award-winning software in a non-profit setting, and the future of the project—which includes an ambitious video editing suite.
Presenter:
Jean Baptiste-Kempf — VideoLAN.org
Workshop: An Introduction to PBCore 2.0 and Metadata for Public Broadcasters
PBCore has served the Public Media community as a metadata schema for describing media since 2005. With a new round of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, WGBH Boston is working on PBCore 2.0 – an updated version which will increase its flexibility as a schema and therefore its applicability to diverse user scenarios. In addition, a new web site with updated documentation is set to launch next month (November, 2010). Come learn about PBCore: how it is evolving, how it is applied, and how it can benefit your workflow and interoperability as a video content producer or consumer.
Presenters:
Chair: Nan Rubin — PBCore Project
Linda Tadic — Audiovisual Archive Network
David Rice — Audiovisual Preservation Solutions
Chris Beer — WGBH Interactive
Workshop: Getting the Most Out of Your Encoder
This talk is a tutorial for video editors and workflow managers that regularly use video compression, and want to learn more about the options they are selecting, a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes, and how to get better results from their video encoding software. The tutorial will introduce using open video technology and open source codecs using QuickTime export (e.g. Final Cut) and demonstrate how to use it in a workflow. The session will also introduce some opportunities and challenges with scalable cloud-based encoding.
Presenters:
David Schleef — Entropy Wave, Inc
Jon Dahl — Zencoder
Core conversation: Build Your Own YouTube in 10k lines of code
There are plenty of benefits to hosting your own video. In this workshop, participants will be guided through the process of rolling their own video sharing site using an open-source transcoding system and Amazon EC2.
Presenter:
Dan Walmsley — Gravity Rail
Core conversation: IE 6/7/8 and open video
Presentation of the Internet Explorer 6/7/8 Theora/Webm ActiveX integration.
Presenter:
Cristian Adam — xiph.org
Core conversation: Open source telepresence
While networked concerts and events are now commonplace, there was until recently no single open source application linking video, audio and data. The Society for Arts and Technologies [SAT] in Montreal recently released Scenic, the first open source software suite to enables audiovisual and data exchanges between two distant performances or event spaces. This presentation will explain how this project was initiated, how its works and how it will continue to grow in the coming years. http://scenic.sat.qc.ca/en/Scenic
Presenters:
Rene Barsalo — Society for Arts and Technology [SAT]