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  10                 <title>Frikanalen, Norwegian TV channel for technical topics</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix User Group&lt;/a&gt;,
  15 where I am a member, and where people interested in free software,
  16 open standards and UNIX like operating systems like Linux and the BSDs
  17 come together, record our monthly technical presentations on video.
  18 The purpose is to document the talks and spread them to a wider
  19 audience.  For this, the the Norwegian nationwide open channel
  20 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt; is a useful venue.
  21 Since a few days ago, when I figured out the
  22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/api/&quot;&gt;REST API&lt;/a&gt; to program the
  23 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/guide/&quot;&gt;channel time schedule&lt;/a&gt;,
  24 the channel has been filled with NUUG talks, related recordings and
  25 some Creative Commons licensed TED talks (from archive.org).  I fill
  26 all &quot;leftover bits&quot; on the channel with content from NUUG, which at
  27 the moment is almost 17 of 24 hours every day.&lt;/p&gt;
  28
  29 &lt;p&gt;The list of NUUG videos
  30 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/organization/82&quot;&gt;uploaded so far&lt;/a&gt;
  31 include things like a
  32 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/625090&quot;&gt;one hour talk by John
  33 Perry Barlow when he visited Oslo&lt;/a&gt;, a presentation of
  34 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/624275&quot;&gt;Haiku, the BeOS
  35 re-implementation&lt;/a&gt;, the
  36 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/624493&quot;&gt;history of FiksGataMi,
  37 the Norwegian version of FixMyStreet&lt;/a&gt;, the good old
  38 &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/623566&quot;&gt;Warriors of the net
  39 video&lt;/A&gt; and many others.&lt;/p&gt;
  40
  41 &lt;p&gt;We have a large backlog of NUUG talks not yet uploaded to
  42 Frikanalen, and plan to upload every useful bit to the channel to
  43 spread the word there.  I also hope to find useful recordings from the
  44 Chaos Computer Club and Debian conferences and spread them on the
  45 channel as well.  But this require locating the videos and their meta
  46 information (title, description, license, etc), and preparing the
  47 recordings for broadcast, and I have not yet had the spare time to
  48 focus on this.  Perhaps you want to help.  Please join us on IRC,
  49 &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug&quot;&gt;#nuug on irc.freenode.net&lt;/a&gt;
  50 if you want to help make this happen.&lt;/p&gt;
  51
  52 &lt;p&gt;But as I said, already the channel is already almost exclusively
  53 filled with technical topics, and if you want to learn something new
  54 today, check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.tv/se&quot;&gt;Ogg Theora
  55 web stream&lt;/a&gt; or use one of the other ways to get access to the
  56 channel.  Unfortunately the Ogg Theora recoding for distribution still
  57 do not properly sync the video and sound.  It is generated by recoding
  58 a internal MPEG transport stream with MPEG4 coded video (ie H.264) to
  59 Ogg Theora / Vorbis, and we have not been able to find a way that
  60 produces acceptable quality.  Help needed, please get in touch if you
  61 know how to fix it using free software.&lt;/p&gt;
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