Fighting for free video - technical tactics and war stories from the FOSS audio and video codec frontier (Oslo 2019-04-24 og Bergen 2019-04-26)

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Norwegian Unix User Group (NUUG) inviterer til medlemsmøte i Oslo og
Bergen, i samarbeid med Bergen Linux User Group.

Alle medlemmer og ikke-medlemmer er velkomne. Arrangementet er
gratis. Etter foredraget (fra ca. 18:00) blir det sosialt samvær.

  Tid: Onsdag 24. april 2019 kl. 17.00
  Sted: Store Studio, NRK, Marienlyst, Oslo.

og

  Tid:  Fredag 26. april 2019 kl. 17.00
  Sted: Media City Bergen, Lars Hilles gate 30, Bergen.

Tema er «Fighting for free video - technical tactics and war stories
from the FOSS audio and video codec frontier» med Christopher 'Monty'
Montgomery.  Foredraget vil foregå på engelsk. Kort om forelesningen:

    First they came for ARC. Free software replaced it. Then they came
    for GIF.  Free software replaced it. Then they came for MP3. What on
    Earth did they expect Free software to do?

    MPEG played it a little smarter than SEA or CompuServe. Threatened
    lawsuits never happened; they simply hung in the air like the Sword
    of Damocles, poisoning the market waters. As intended, this boxed
    out the Free MP3 encoder projects, the people directly responsible
    for MP3's growing success. And the rest of the world mostly
    continued treating MP3 like a 'free' format and mostly didn't get
    sued. Mostly.

    But the Free codec hackers did not forget, and thus far we choose
    not to forgive.

    In this talk Monty will present recollections, technical asides, and
    unsubstantiable gossip in an intentionally one-sided history of the
    codec wars. From the early days of LAME to the dawning story of the
    new AV1, come hear about the tactics and maneuvers of Free codec
    development.

Christopher (Monty) Montgomery has been professionally active in audio
and compression since 1993. He founded Xiph.Org in 1994 and began the
Vorbis codec in 1998, shortly after Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson
Multimedia threatened legal action against FOSS MP3 encoder projects.

Over time Monty and Xiph.Org have developed or contributed to other Free
and Open Source codecs such as Speex, FLAC, Theora, Daala, CELT, Opus,
and AV1.  Monty's other software includes CDParanoia and Postfish, and
he's contributed to Audacity and Cinelerra in the service of musical
theater, video, and stage production.

Monty holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a
concentration in music from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and a M.Eng. in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Institute of
Technology. He is currently a research engineer at the Mozilla
Corporation, where he works on digital media standards.

Medlemsmøtet i Oslo vil også bli direktesendt over internett, adressen
til videostrømmen er <https://www.nuug.no/live.m3u>, som du kan åpne i
nettleseren eller direkte i mediaavspilleren. For mer informasjon se
egen side om direktesending av video.

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