A major educational authority in South Yorkshire, England, has begun using one of the U.K.’s most technologically advanced IP video distribution systems.
The 17 middle schools and two learning centers managed by the Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council are installing an IP video distribution system developed by Video Furnace, a US-based provider of IP video solutions.
The [...]
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UK School Authority Selects Video Furnace
Metacafe attracted
more than 44 million unique monthly viewers worldwide in December, as recently reported
by comScore Media Metrix. This represents a 54% year-over-year increase and 15% growth
over the month of November.
Metacafe remains focused on two key initiatives launched in 2008:
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Metacafe Traffic Increases 54% in 2008, 44 Million Unique Viewers in December
Transcoding your films on a PC
We believe your videos should look as good as possible when we broadcast them. Much video on the web is poorly encoded, of low quality, contains unnecessary artefacts (those blocky lines which happen on movement) and other problems.
All this is avoided by following this simple guide!
1. The VOTV transcoding standard
Full spec DV video takes around 200mb space per minute of film, which is clearly impractical for uploading to the web. All finished films therefore need “downsizing” to make them internet-ready. This process is called transcoding. Most streaming sites such as youtube will do this for you, but at a low image quality. We are currently promoting a standard for internet video which uses around 10mb of space per minute of uploaded video. This is not so huge that it will put off viewers from downloading it, but is good enough quality to be screened via a video projector. We will revise this standard upwards when internet bandwidth and codecs improve. We transcode to mp4 format with the h264 codec (rather than other codecs such as div-x or x-vid). The h264 codec is becoming industry-standard.
2. Currently if you are using Abode don’t use this to transcode
Video editing software usually has its own encoding options. We recommend using a professional editing package such as Adobe Premiere, but currently we find the transcoding options with Premiere unreliable. We therefore advise exporting from Premiere a normal full spec DV avi as your completed film. You can also keep this top-quality copy or record it to tape for archiving.
3. Use a free stand-alone transcoder
There are a number of free stand-alone transcoders. We ae recommending the simplest one to use. So, download Mpeg Streamclip for free at http://www.squared5.com/ and install.
4. Make an mp4
Run Mpeg Streamclip
File – open files – browse for your film and open
Files – Make an MPEG-4 (opens a new window)
Compression: h264
Quality: ignore
Multipass – check
Limit Data Rate – check – 1200 kbps
Sound – MPEG-4 AAC – Stereo – 128 kbps
Frame Size: For a PAL standard video 640 x 480 for 4:3 screen ratio, 800 x 480 for 16:9
For an NTSC standard video 480 x 360 for 4:3, 640×360 for 16:9
Deinterlace Video – check (this is very important!)
Leave everything else as default – maximum quality.
Make MP4
Your film will now transcode as an h264 mpeg4 file.
5. Upload your film
Upload to a bittorrent client. We use vuze.com, but any will do.
If you don’t already have a bittorrent client, download azureus vuze from http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php?os=1
In vuze, open an account.
Click Publish
Publish new content
Follow the instructions
Select tags and put the tag “visionontv” and any others which would help people find your film.
Then tell us you have uploaded, and we will migrate your film across to visionOntv.
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Transcoding your films on a PC
The police were abusing the law for searching everyone entering the climate camp which led to this happening – protesters ignore police stop and search the police then used sec 44 of the Terrorism Act which would have made this filming of the police stopping legal observes
much harder to do. This second film caused the Kent police to be investigated by internal affairs after the Chief Constable lied to an MEP about the policing of legal observers and then the MEP was able to take this film a few hours later to show that he had lied – good bit of video activism to stop police abuse of authority.
The Terrorism Act has been used at many big demonstrations over the last few years and is used more and more on peaceful protesters. Take some action on the new Counter-Terrorism Act which comes on on 16th February http://www.pledgebank.com/s76photo before it becomes illegal to use video as a tool to stop the common police abuse of their authority.
“I will take a photograph of a UK police officer, or other defined under S76 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, on or before February 16 2009
76 Offences relating to information about members of armed forces etc (1) After section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 (collection of information) insert— “58A Eliciting, publishing or communicating information about members of armed forces etc (1) A person commits an offence who— (a) elicits or attempts to elicit information about an individual who is or has been— (i) a member of Her Majesty’s forces, (ii) a member of any of the intelligence services, or (iii) a constable, which is of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, or (b) publishes or communicates any such information. (2) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under this section to prove that they had a reasonable excuse for their action. (3) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable— (a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or to a fine, or to both; (b) on summary conviction— (i) in England and Wales or Scotland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both; (ii) in Northern Ireland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both.
Take action http://www.pledgebank.com/s76photo More info coming up soon on http://visionon.tv
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Do you know it will soon be illegal to photograph the police in many public order situations
As I try and manage my ever more complicated life, the parallels between the way we live our lives – especially in these uncertain times – and the way we now consume our television struck me.
Just as the regime of the traditional working day changes to a less, patterned, some would say chaotic, existence, so our viewing patterns are less consistent, less predictable; we time shift and pause, our attention span lowers, our life is lived in bite sizes.
Increasingly what we seek is order, interpritation and form.
What we need is for the television to understand us, what we're interested in and even what mood we're in.
In a cluttered, time shifted TV world
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Unscheduled Lives
