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The state of video

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Scheduled: Thursday, November 4, 2010 from 2:20 – 3:05pm in President's Ballroom

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A look at how to make watching and creating videos on Linux as good as it should be

Abstract

The way people use videos has changed a lot in the last few years. From just watching DVDs on our computers, we evolved to watching and producing movies as the Youtube generation. And we do it on our cell phones. Unfortunately our software didn’t keep track. It is often still using 10 year old technology like XVideo.

Updating the software is not an easy task, as it involves changes to pretty much every part of the software stack: drivers, the X server, framework libraries and the applications all need to be involved.

Last November developers from GStreamer, Cairo, Mesa and X met at the Video Hackfest and discussed how to best provide the capabilities of modern GPUs and meet the restrictions of embedded devices.

This talk summarizes the findings from that time, examines the progress that has been made on implementations, takes a look at the unsolved problems and dares a look into the future.

But most of all, the talk aims to raise awareness of the effort and seeks input from everybody involved, so that we end up with a software stack that just works.

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Speaker

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    Benjamin Otte

    Red Hat

    Biography

    Since his entry into the Free Software world in 2002 Benjamin Otte has continually tried to make computers more fun. His success stories include the Swfdec Flash player, co-maintaining GStreamer, working on GVfs and Cairo and a high ranking on Ohloh. During the days he spends his time working on all things multimedia at Red Hat.

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