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First Installment of Xiph.org's 'Digital Video Primer For Geeks'

Posted by timothy on from the so-many-pixels dept.

Ignorant Aardvark writes "Xiph.org just released the first installment in its video series 'A Digital Video Primer For Geeks,' which covers digital audio and video fundamentals. The first video covers basic concepts of how digital audio and video are encoded, and does so in an understandable fashion. The video is hosted by Monty, the founder of Xiph.org (the people who brought you Ogg), and explains a lot of concepts (FourCC codes, YUV color space, gamma, etc.) that many watchers of digital video have long been exposed to, but don't quite understand themselves. The intent of the video series (in addition to general education) is to spur interest in digital encoding and get more free software hackers involved in digital audio/video."

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  1. Why? by dangitman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why does it have to be "for geeks"? Why can't it just be for people who are interested in digital video? I guess people who bite the heads off chickens at carnivals need their own special perspective on the topic, but I can't imagine that those people constitute a very significant market segment when it comes to video.

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    1. Re:Why? by dangitman · · Score: 1, Funny

      I understand the general public not getting the difference between say, lossy and lossless compression, but a geek?

      Huh? I think that geeks typically know less than the general public. For example, your average member of the general public is intelligent enough to not choose a career that involves biting the heads off chickens. I'm not sure why you think that this particular career choice would involve specific knowledge about video compression.

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  2. Re:Hrm by SIR_Taco · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm just a little skeptical....

    If it were really a primer for geeks it would have started at Episode IV

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