GUADEC 2005 Multimedia Track
This year GUADEC will feature a special multimedia track to focus the
developments happening with multimedia and Free Software. As traditional
software gets bogged down with licensing battles and patent claims, free
formats and technologies are gaining traction.
The Multimedia track pulls in the leading forces in Open Source multimedia
including Xiph.org, creators of popular Ogg Vorbis and Ogg Theora multimedia
formats. Fluendo S.L. creators of the Flumotion Streaming Server and sponsors
of GStreamer and Xiph.org development. Industry leaders such as BBC will be
there to talk about their efforts, like their next generation Dirac video
codec and Nokia will be there to talk about their involvement with Open
Source software. Interesting projects such as Annodex, Pitivi and GNOME
Meeting will also be presented during the conference.
Multimedia Track Program
Sunday 29th May:
Pitivi - Edward Hervey presents the Pitivi Non-linear video editor.
Utilizing the GStreamer framework this non-linear editor is already showing
great promise. The talk will present the basics of video editing, how this is
approached in GStreamer and GNonlin libraries and integration opportunities
between Pitivi and other Free Software projects like Gimp and Cinepaint.
Xiph.org - Ralph Giles presents the work being done by Xiph.org on
creating open and royalty free video formats. Contents include current
situation and upcoming developments from Xiph. Ralph will also talk about
the Theora video format which he is the maintainer of.
GStreamer - Wim Taymans presents GStreamer the de-facto standard
multimedia framework for GNU/Linux systems. This will be a highly technical
talk focusing on the design goals for the newly released 0.10 release series
and roadmap for development towards GStreamer 1.0. Anyone who have worked
and plan on working on something multimedia related in GNOME should be sure
to catch this talk in order to be aware of how GStreamer 0.10/1.0 differs
from the 0.8.x release series.
Annodex - Conrad Parker presents Annodex a revolutionary new system
for hyperlinking multimedia. The Annodex technology aims at creating a
self-sustaining community of people based around a compelling mode of
interaction with digital media. This Continuous Media Web is composed of
time-continuous data - video such as self-published home movies, webcam
streams and news feeds, and audio including music and Internet radio. It is
orthogonal to the existing text based Web and links cross over from either
side easily.
Dirac - Thomas Davies presents the work BBC have been doing developing
a next generation video compresion codec called Dirac. Dirac will be available
royalty free and offer state of the art video quality. Dirac will also use the
AAF and MXF container formats for easy integration with leading video editing
packages.
Tuesday 31th May:
Flumotion - Thomas Vander Stichele presents the Flumotion Streaming
Server. He will talk about the development and practical programming lessons
learnt doing a distributed multimedia streaming server in the versatile
python programming language. He will also do short demoes of current
functionality. Flumotion is the streaming server used to stream the GUADEC
conference the last two years.
GNOME Meeting - VoIP - Damien Sandras presents the
latest news and development on GNOME Meeting the Voice over IP solultion
for GNOME.
Digital Photography in GNOME - Hubert Figuière presents the
technologies available in GNOME for handling digital cameras and what features
are on the horizon. As digital cameras are becoming more and more common a
modern desktop environment needs to offer good support for these devices and
for manipulating the photos extracted from them.
Nokia and Open Source - Yannick Pellet of Nokia will present some of
the work they have been doing with Open Source at Nokia focusing especially on
the work they have been doing with GNOME and GStreamer related technologies.
