From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 09:54:51 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: New post.
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+Title: Frikanalen, Norwegian TV channel for technical topics
+Tags: english, video, nuug, frikanalen
+Date: 2015-03-09 11:00
+
+<p>The <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Norwegian Unix User Group</a>,
+where I am a member, and where people interested in free software,
+open standards and UNIX like operating systems like Linux and the BSDs
+come together, record our monthly technical presentations on video.
+The purpose is to document the talks and spread them to a wider
+audience.  For this, the the Norwegian nationwide open channel
+<a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a> is a useful venue.
+Since a few days ago, when I figured out the
+<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/api/">REST API</a> to program the
+<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.tv/guide/">channel time schedule</a>,
+the channel has been filled with NUUG talks, related recordings and
+some Creative Commons licensed TED talks (from archive.org).  I fill
+all "leftover bits" on the channel with content from NUUG, which at
+the moment is almost 17 of 24 hours every day.</p>
+
+<p>We have a large backlog of NUUG talks not yet uploaded to
+Frikanalen, and plan to upload every useful bit to the channel to
+spread the word there.  I also hope to find useful recordings from the
+Chaos Computer Club and Debian conferences and spread them on the
+channel as well.  But this require locating the videos and their meta
+information (title, description, license, etc), and preparing the
+recordings for broadcast, and I have not yet had the spare time to
+focus on this.  Perhaps you want to help.  Please join us on IRC,
+<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug">#nuug on irc.freenode.net</a>
+if you want to help make this happen.</p>
+
+<p>But as I said, already the channel is already almost exclusively
+filled with technical topics, and if you want to learn something new
+today, check out the <a href="http://www.frikanalen.tv/se">Ogg Theora
+web stream</a> or use one of the other ways to get access to the
+channel.  Unfortunately the Ogg Theora recoding for distribution still
+do not properly sync the video and sound.  It is generated by recoding
+a internal MPEG transport stream with MPEG4 coded video (ie H.264) to
+Ogg Theora / Vorbis, and we have not been able to find a way that
+produces acceptable quality.  Help needed, please get in touch if you
+know how to fix it using free software.</p>