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Mark Pesce: Open Source Television

Posted by timothy on from the public-access-media dept.

alexburnsdisinfo writes "Mark Pesce has given a riveting talk to Australia's Smart Internet CRC on Open Source Television. Rights for reuse granted under the Creative Commons Attribution License." (The talk is here transcribed as text, and it's good reading.)

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  1. And this is the perfect way to implement it... by diagnosis · · Score: 4, Informative

    And what better way to share Free stuff than the Internet?

    Nullsoft (of WinAmp/trouble-making fame) released NSV/Winamp TV. A good description:

    NSV is a new multimedia container format designed for network video streaming. The format is known as NullSoft Video or simply NSV. NSV was developed by Nullsoft corporation, the same company that produced the popular Winamp and Shoutcast streaming audio software.

    NSV consists of free software to encode, stream and view video. There are additional third party NSV applications being developed and distributed by stations and users.

    Visit here for more info

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  2. Re:They just want to let the cable TV wash over th by ZeroGee · · Score: 2, Informative

    Continue your attempts to educate and change the world but don't be surprised when it doesn't do a fucking thing other than label you as someone on the fringe.

    You're never going to get everyone to agree with you. If that was possible, democracy would be unnecessary, because we would all have the same viewpoint and elections would be pointless.

    You also state:
    We are talking about people that just don't give a fuck about thinking for themselves. They care only what they hear on TV and read in their local paper.

    I'm surprised by this vitriol. These people are the minority of voters. There's a reason voter turnout is always so low, and that's because the people that don't care, don't want to put themselves out by going to an elementary school and pulling levers. (Well, maybe if they could use those Diebold machines... nah)

    Although I'm very liberal, I am far happier to talk about world events to someone who is a fan of Bill O'Reilly's TV show as opposed to someone who gets their news from the radio on the way to work in the morning. Just because I disagree with their opinions doesn't mean those opinions aren't worthwhile. It is the lack of opinions that we need fear most.

  3. Re:They just want to let the cable TV wash over th by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Here are several sources of information that point to Fox News' bias.

    My point was that ALL media outlets in the US are spinning shit. Fox News is just the greatest offender.

  4. Mark Pesce by Frogg · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't read the article at the moment (their MySQL has overloaded)...

    ...but Mark Pesce was the original inventor of VRML -- which, although it seems to've pretty much died-a-death in the dot-com bust, I think we'll eventually go full circle and re-discover/re-invent it once we've all got SVG viewers built-in to our browsers.

  5. Re:Open Source by demaria · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think MediaCo could use those fan scripts for free. Wouldn't that be against the Writers Union rules?

    Of course, fans could write and submit scripts for consideration, but they can do that today.