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)

[aktive at nuug.no]

Jeg minner om NUUg-møter i Oslo onsdag og Bergen fredag med en av
verdens fremste forkjemper for frie og åpne lyd- og videoformater.  Ses
vi i NRKs Store Studio onsdag 17:00?

<URL: https://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20190424-foss-video/ >

[NUUG]
> 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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> <https://www.nuug.no/adict/ical.php?  organizer=NUUG>.
>
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