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Linuxfest Northwest 2005 Webcast

Posted by timothy on from the join-in-now dept.

Hardlines writes "Linuxfest Northwest 2005 presented by the Bellingham Linux Users Group is offering a live webcast of the presenters (in Quicktime). A schedule of presenters is available, for reference, the webcast is taking place in room G-103." As of this moment, former Slashdot editor and general good guy Chris DiBona is about to start a talk on the state of open source projects at Google.

5 comments

  1. Quicktime??? by advocate_one · · Score: 2, Insightful

    what idiot decided to use quicktime??? what the heck was wrong with picking a free codec for doing it with???

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    1. Re:Quicktime??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Since when is Quicktime a codec?

    2. Re:Quicktime??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      The stream is being broadcast through an open source streaming server called Darwin streaming server, and can be viewed using Video Lan Client. Check out http://www.videolan.org/vlc/. It's a platform that has proven to be stable.

    3. Re:Quicktime??? by suitepotato · · Score: 1

      If only its capabilities were as stable. No two files seem to get the same result with it on either my Windows or FC3 boxes, whether Quicktime, MPEG-2, or AVI. Sometimes it plays them, sometimes it doesn't.

      I agree that something more friendly to the Linux community itself would have been better. I resist the urge to go tinfoil hat and say this was a telling tacit comment on the Linux community's friendliness towards the Mac in these days of the BSD-ish OSX, but will resist and not make that statement. You saw nothing, I said nothing. ; )

      At least they didn't use Real Player as the required venue. That would have mightily sucked.

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  2. chown -R us /home/your/base by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

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