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  26  <a href="../../The_sorry_state_of_multimedia_browser_plugins_in_Debian.html">The sorry state of multimedia browser plugins in Debian</a>
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  29   2008-11-25 00:10
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  34 <p>Recently I have spent some time evaluating the multimedia browser
  35 plugins available in Debian Lenny, to see which one we should use by
  36 default in Debian Edu.  We need an embedded video playing plugin with
  37 control buttons to pause or stop the video, and capable of streaming
  38 all the multimedia content available on the web.  The test results and
  39 notes are available on
  40 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/BrowserMultimedia">the
  41 Debian wiki</a>.  I was surprised how few of the plugins are able to
  42 fill this need.  My personal video player favorite, VLC, has a really
  43 bad plugin which fail on a lot of the test pages.  A lot of the MIME
  44 types I would expect to work with any free software player (like
  45 video/ogg), just do not work.  And simple formats like the
  46 audio/x-mplegurl format (m3u playlists), just isn't supported by the
  47 totem and vlc plugins.  I hope the situation will improve soon.  No
  48 wonder sites use the proprietary Adobe flash to play video.</p>
  49
  50 <p>For Lenny, we seem to end up with the mplayer plugin.  It seem to
  51 be the only one fitting our needs. :/</p>
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  58   Tags: <a href="../../tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="../../tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="../../tags/english">english</a>, <a href="../../tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="../../tags/web">web</a>.
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  66  <a href="../../Devcamp_brought_us_closer_to_the_Lenny_based_Debian_Edu_release.html">Devcamp brought us closer to the Lenny based Debian Edu release</a>
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  69   2008-12-07 12:00
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  74 <p>This weekend we had a small developer gathering for Debian Edu in
  75 Oslo.  Most of Saturday was used for the general assemly for the
  76 member organization, but the rest of the weekend I used to tune the
  77 LTSP installation.  LTSP now work out of the box on the 10-network.
  78 Acer Aspire One proved to be a very nice thin client, with both
  79 screen, mouse and keybard in a small box.  Was working on getting the
  80 diskless workstation setup configured out of the box, but did not
  81 finish it before the weekend was up.</p>
  82
  83 <p>Did not find time to look at the 4 VGA cards in one box we got from
  84 the Brazilian group, so that will have to wait for the next
  85 development gathering.  Would love to have the Debian Edu installer
  86 automatically detect and configure a multiseat setup when it find one
  87 of these cards.</p>
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 102  <a href="../../Software_video_mixer_on_a_USB_stick.html">Software video mixer on a USB stick</a>
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 105   2008-12-28 15:40
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 110 <p>The <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a> is
 111 recording our montly presentation on video, and recently we have
 112 worked on improving the quality of the recordings by mixing the slides
 113 directly with the video stream.  For this, we use the
 114 <a href="http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/">dvswitch</a> package from
 115 the Debian video team.  As this require quite one computer per video
 116 source, and NUUG do not have enough laptops available, we need to
 117 borrow laptops.  And to avoid having to install extra software on
 118 these borrwed laptops, I have wrapped up all the programs needed on a
 119 bootable USB stick.  The software required is dvswitch with assosiated
 120 source, sink and mixer applications and
 121 <a href="http://www.kinodv.org/">dvgrab</a>.  To allow this setup to
 122 work without any configuration, I've patched dvswitch to use
 123 <a href="http://www.avahi.org/">avahi</a> to connect the various parts
 124 together.  And to allow us to use laptops without firewire plugs, I
 125 upgraded dvgrab to the one from Debian/unstable to get one that work
 126 with USB sources.  We have not yet tested this setup in a production
 127 setup, but I hope it will work properly, and allow us to set up a
 128 video mixer in a very short time frame.  We will need it for
 129 <a href="http://www.goopen.no/">Go Open 2009</a>.</p>
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 131 <p><a href="http://www.nuug.no/pub/video/bin/usbstick-dvswitch.img.gz">The
 132 USB image</a> is for a 1 GB memory stick, but can be used on any
 133 larger stick as well.</p>
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 151   2009-01-17 18:50
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 156 <p>As part of the work we do in <a href="http://www.nuug.no">NUUG</a>
 157 to publish video recordings of our monthly presentations, we provide a
 158 page with embedded video for easy access to the recording.  Putting a
 159 good set of HTML tags together to get working embedded video in all
 160 browsers and across all operating systems is not easy.  I hope this
 161 will become easier when the &lt;video&gt; tag is implemented in all
 162 browsers, but I am not sure.  We provide the recordings in several
 163 formats, MPEG1, Ogg Theora, H.264 and Quicktime, and want the
 164 browser/media plugin to pick one it support and use it to play the
 165 recording, using whatever embed mechanism the browser understand.
 166 There is at least four different tags to use for this, the new HTML5
 167 &lt;video&gt; tag, the &lt;object&gt; tag, the &lt;embed&gt; tag and
 168 the &lt;applet&gt; tag.  All of these take a lot of options, and
 169 finding the best options is a major challenge.</p>
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 171 <p>I just tested the experimental Opera browser available from <a
 172 href="http://labs.opera.com">labs.opera.com</a>, to see how it handled
 173 a &lt;video&gt; tag with a few video sources and no extra attributes.
 174 I was not very impressed.  The browser start by fetching a picture
 175 from the video stream.  Not sure if it is the first frame, but it is
 176 definitely very early in the recording.  So far, so good. Next,
 177 instead of streaming the 76 MiB video file, it start to download all
 178 of it, but do not start to play the video.  This mean I have to wait
 179 for several minutes for the downloading to finish.  When the download
 180 is done, the playing of the video do not start!  Waiting for the
 181 download, but I do not get to see the video?  Some testing later, I
 182 discover that I have to add the controls="true" attribute to be able
 183 to get a play button to pres to start the video.  Adding
 184 autoplay="true" did not help.  I sure hope this is a misfeature of the
 185 test version of Opera, and that future implementations of the
 186 &lt;video&gt; tag will stream recordings by default, or at least start
 187 playing when the download is done.</p>
 188
 189 <p>The test page I used (since changed to add more attributes) is
 190 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20090113-foredrag-om-foredrag/">available
 191 from the nuug site</a>.  Will have to test it with the new Firefox
 192 too.</p>
 193
 194 <p>In the test process, I discovered a missing feature.  I was unable
 195 to find a way to get the URL of the playing video out of Opera, so I
 196 am not quite sure it picked the Ogg Theora version of the video.  I
 197 sure hope it was using the announced Ogg Theora support. :)</p>
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