<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Dominik, Jan, fosdem@, video@,</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op di 4 jan. 2022 om 15:38 schreef Dominik George <<a href="mailto:dominik.george@teckids.org">dominik.george@teckids.org</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> audio codec: aac audio codec<br>
Huh, I am confused. This is still FOSDEM (that thing with Free and Open in the name, right)?<br>
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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?</blockquote><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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:<br></div><div>- pioneering as free software as possible live video streaming at this large scale<br></div><div>- nginx-rtmp packaging in Debian</div><div>- voctomix packaging in Debian</div><div>- mainline kernel on Allwinner A20</div><div>- building our own FOSS gear. 60 pieces of it. Remember the laser cut wooden boxes?<br></div><div>- supported several free and open source conferences voluntarily, including FOSSAsia, Openstreetmap's State of the Map, UbuCon, ...<br></div><div>- published our entire deployment setup (ansible)</div><div>- active outreach to c3voc and debconf video team</div><div>- reencoding all recorded videos in not just in mp4 (h264 video, aac audio), but also webm (vp9 video, opus audio)<br></div><div>- active research of vp9 based live encoding and streaming solutions<br></div><div>- and many more<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your understanding.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div>FOSDEM vzw<br></div></div></div>