FSF 30th Birthday Party
If you missed the live stream I captured it.
Some things to note: The audio drops out for a while but does return later. As a result you miss some of what John is saying. Also, the audio & video seem to be out of sync but I overlooked this by not watching the speaker's mouths. Finally, the stream cut out near the end but restarted very quickly after. The second file contains that other portion but it's not much.
http://files.jxself.org/fsf30th.ogv
http://files.jxself.org/fsf30th.1.ogv
It's a crucially important thing that RMS emphasises in this speech. The work of the free software movement has changed character and become more difficult because it can no longer be mainly focused on building software replacements that people can use in freedom (GNU's Not Unix), but must be even more on educating people to value their own freedom.
I believe the situation is quite similar to that of the vegetarian/vegan ethical movement. While there are now more alternatives to animal products than ever before, only a minority use these substitutes while the masses eat more meat than ever. And just like it's very hard to change peoples' eating habits so is it with computer and communication habits.
I agree with that comment a 100%. (By the way, are you on Diaspora or GNU social? I want to hear more from you!)
Why are you using the lower quality Theora in the ogv conatainer instead of WebM? For second, I forgot what year it was and it was before 2010.
Ask the FSF. This is what it was streamed in. All I did was capture the raw stream with wget and put it online, nothing more. Encoding it into another lossy format is not a good idea, to lose even more.
why is Theora lower quality than webm doesn’t it just depend on the bitrate?
It's lower quality for a given size, because VP8's compression is much better. I don't know for sure whether Theora-compressed video is technically capable of being as high quality as VP8 (by sacrificing compression and making the file size much bigger) or not, but that's a moot point, really; keep taking away compression and you'll just end up with the uncompressed form in the end. VP8 is better in every way than Theora, as far as I know. It really is strange that the FSF keeps using Theora. Maybe it's just what their camera outputs, or something like that.
"VP8 is better in every way than Theora, as far as I know"
Except one: Theora is easier on the CPU to encode and decode. Considering the laptop that's doing the encoding (probably an X60 with libreboot because they want to pull off the even using only free software) this may be another factor.
As we look at newer codecs, the following has been said of them [0]: "The next-generation VP9 and HEVC codecs are the latest incremental refinements of a basic codec design that dates back 25 years to h.261. This conservative, linear development strategy evolving a proven design has yielded reliable improvement with relatively low risk, but the law of diminishing returns is setting in. Recent performance increases are coming at exponentially increasing computational cost."