Hello Dominik, Jan, fosdem@, video@, Op di 4 jan. 2022 om 15:38 schreef Dominik George < dominik.george@teckids.org>:
audio codec: aac audio codec Huh, I am confused. This is still FOSDEM (that thing with Free and Open in the name, right)?
How come I have to go through the trouble of compiling a patent-encumbered codec from source, instead of using some free and open codec shipped with free and open encoding tools?
You have correctly spotted a compromise we've made. There are several reasons for that, some historical and some still very much valid. I trust that in practice, you'll be able to (find someone to) deal with it. FOSDEM video has grown ever more libre and open, but that progress has been paused for now by the pandemic situation. It's hard enough organising a virtual FOSDEM as is, so a further push ahead will have to wait until after FOSDEM 2022. Some things that should tell you how committed the FOSDEM video volunteers are to free and open source software, should you be in any doubt about that: - pioneering as free software as possible live video streaming at this large scale - nginx-rtmp packaging in Debian - voctomix packaging in Debian - mainline kernel on Allwinner A20 - building our own FOSS gear. 60 pieces of it. Remember the laser cut wooden boxes? - supported several free and open source conferences voluntarily, including FOSSAsia, Openstreetmap's State of the Map, UbuCon, ... - published our entire deployment setup (ansible) - active outreach to c3voc and debconf video team - reencoding all recorded videos in not just in mp4 (h264 video, aac audio), but also webm (vp9 video, opus audio) - active research of vp9 based live encoding and streaming solutions - and many more Thank you for your understanding. Kind regards, Mark FOSDEM vzw