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BSD Conference Videos on YouTube

Contributed by jason on from the pkg_add-yt dept.

cruel sends us a link to the bsdconferences channel on YouTube. It's described thusly:

Channel for video content about the BSD Family of Operating Systems: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, MacOS X, PC-BSD, and more.

Currently there's a lack of OpenBSD videos, so please send some to the author to upload!

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (96.21.15.58) on

    Will Backman would be great for Video Interviews too, love BSDTalk!

    Isn't there another one like it too, I forget.

  2. By Marcielo (65.93.2.178) on

    Ugh, videos are in flash. and Flash (Adobe) is evil.

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (96.21.15.58) on

      > Ugh, videos are in flash. and Flash (Adobe) is evil.
      >

      Use a LiveOpenBSD CD in a VM.

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      1. By Brynet (Brynet) on

        > Ugh, videos are in flash. and Flash (Adobe) is evil.
        >
        > www/youtube-dl

        Nobody should have to use that.. lua dependency? yuk!

        Marcielo is right, Flash/Adobe is evil.

        This should not be advertised here.

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        1. By Anonymous Coward (85.19.213.88) on

          > > Ugh, videos are in flash. and Flash (Adobe) is evil.
          > >
          > > www/youtube-dl
          >
          > Nobody should have to use that.. lua dependency? yuk!

          No, Python. You're thinking about net/yt (which works great, BTW).

          > Marcielo is right, Flash/Adobe is evil.

          Please show me the site that provides the same content without flash.

          > This should not be advertised here.

          Why not? It's not like anyone is forcing you to visit the site.

          OP: thanks for mentioning the site. I will use net/yt to get a copy of the videos and enjoy them later tonight.

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          1. By brainbomb (85.182.3.31) on http://www.zilium.de

            > Please show me the site that provides the same content without flash.

            confreaks.com offer videos in MP4. Its not BSD but Ruby stuff. Anyway. It's possible to provide high value technical stuff without Flash.

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            1. By Anonymous Coward (85.19.213.88) on

              > > Please show me the site that provides the same content without
              > > flash.
              >
              > confreaks.com offer videos in MP4. Its not BSD but Ruby stuff.

              This is not /the same content/. This is some random site that happens
              to provide MP4 movies for download /in addition/ to viewing them online
              using Flash. You have to download the movies, just like on Youtube.

              > Anyway. It's possible to provide high value technical stuff without
              > Flash.

              Doh, you think? I don't like flash either, but I'm not going to pretend
              it doesn't exist. I want to watch the BSD talks. What do you suggest I
              do? Until your FreeTube site is done converting all of Youtube to Ogg
              Theora, I'll just use net/yt and view the movies when I want to.

            2. By Simon Lundström (simmel) on

              > > Please show me the site that provides the same content without flash.
              >
              > confreaks.com offer videos in MP4. Its not BSD but Ruby stuff. Anyway. It's possible to provide high value technical stuff without Flash.

              If there exists an "high quality" version of an video on youtube, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snVtilaj-KI has, you can actually download it in MP4! And all movie players that I've used can play .flv when it has downloaded the file.

              For downloading (Google) techtalks and listen/watch on my FanBoiPod I use http://file2hd.com which is an excellent site for this purpose!

        2. By tedu (udet) on

          > > Ugh, videos are in flash. and Flash (Adobe) is evil.
          > >
          > > www/youtube-dl
          >
          > Nobody should have to use that.. lua dependency? yuk!
          >
          > Marcielo is right, Flash/Adobe is evil.
          >
          > This should not be advertised here.

          Oh, get overyourself. Or take your religion somewhere else.

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          1. By Anonymous Coward (24.136.247.144) on

            > > > Ugh, videos are in flash. and Flash (Adobe) is evil.
            > > >
            > > > www/youtube-dl
            > >
            > > Nobody should have to use that.. lua dependency? yuk!
            > >
            > > Marcielo is right, Flash/Adobe is evil.
            > >
            > > This should not be advertised here.
            >
            > Oh, get overyourself. Or take your religion somewhere else.

            He has a legitimate point; this is an OpenBSD site and the BSD videos are hosted on a site that is not BSD-friendly.

            It would have been better, methinks, to use a more open codec and host them via BitTorrent.

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            1. By jason (jason) on http://www.dixongroup.net/

              > He has a legitimate point; this is an OpenBSD site and the BSD videos are hosted on a site that is not BSD-friendly.
              >
              > It would have been better, methinks, to use a more open codec and host them via BitTorrent.

              We didn't create the channel. But I'm taking advantage of the opportunity to host some of my presentations there since Murray Stokely a) has an insider's path to uploading movies > 10 minutes and b) has been kind enough to share his resources. If you don't want to watch them, then don't. But this is a good way to share some of our presentations with folks that weren't able to attend.

              P.S. I also make all of my talks available at http://talks.dixongroup.net/.

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              1. By Josh Grosse (josh) on

                Thanks, Jason. BTW, the two you placed on YT were very amusing!

              2. By Anonymous Coward (74.198.99.93) on

                > > He has a legitimate point; this is an OpenBSD site and the BSD videos are hosted on a site that is not BSD-friendly. > > > > It would have been better, methinks, to use a more open codec and host them via BitTorrent. > > We didn't create the channel. But I'm taking advantage of the opportunity to host some of my presentations there since Murray Stokely a) has an insider's path to uploading movies > 10 minutes and b) has been kind enough to share his resources. If you don't want to watch them, then don't. But this is a good way to share some of our presentations with folks that weren't able to attend. > > P.S. I also make all of my talks available at http://talks.dixongroup.net/.

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                1. By Anonymous Coward (74.198.107.13) on

                  Sorry (for the above). Cellphone browser mangled my reply, and resent my post without modification.

                  Thanks Jason for the amusing while educating talk, will you repeat it in Washington? (BSDtalk 167)
                  How long does it take you to make one of these presentations, and what is the meaning behind the Family Guy scene?

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                  1. By jason (jason) on http://www.dixongroup.net/

                    > Sorry (for the above). Cellphone browser mangled my reply, and resent my post without modification.
                    >
                    > Thanks Jason for the amusing while educating talk, will you repeat it in Washington? (BSDtalk 167)
                    > How long does it take you to make one of these presentations, and what is the meaning behind the Family Guy scene?

                    I don't currently have any plans to give a talk at DCBSDCon. That would be just a tad too self-promotional. But you never know.

                    I had to load up the slides to figure out what reference to Family Guy you meant. I think that was a really obtuse reference to licensing (DMV). Obviously it wasn't too funny. ;)

        3. By CODOR (CODOR) on

          > This should not be advertised here.

          The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not
          install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.
          That Firefox offers to install it is a very bad thing.


          -- Richard Stallman, champion of freedom, from openbsd-misc...

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          1. By Anonymous Coward (85.19.213.88) on

            > > This should not be advertised here.
            >
            > The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not
            > install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.
            > That Firefox offers to install it is a very bad thing. -- Richard
            > Stallman, champion of freedom

            “Anybody who tells me I can’t use a program because it’s not open
            source, go suck on rms. I’m not interested. 99% of that I run tends
            to be open source, but that’s _my_ choice, dammit.” -- Linus Torvalds

    3. By Lars Noodén (84.251.129.228) on

      > Ugh, videos are in flash. and Flash (Adobe) is evil.

      It's time to use Ogg Theora more widely, anyway. Theora 1.0 is released and both Firefox and Opera support it natively.

  3. By cnst (cnst) on

    Anyone knows why "watch in high quality" option is not available for this channel?

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    1. By Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd (weerd) on http://www.weirdnet.nl/openbsd/

      > Anyone knows why "watch in high quality" option is not available for this channel?

      The last video I watched in this channel (jdixons' BSD is Dying talk) had a high quality thing. Somehow, the quality degraded halfway through the talk, but the first part definitely was better quality than the 'normal quality' video.

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      1. By Gilles Chehade (gilles) on http://www.poolp.org/~gilles/

        > > Anyone knows why "watch in high quality" option is not available for this channel?
        >
        > The last video I watched in this channel (jdixons' BSD is Dying talk) had a high quality thing. Somehow, the quality degraded halfway through the talk, but the first part definitely was better quality than the 'normal quality' video.

        Haha, that talk is hysterical, I had a very good laugh ;-)

      2. By Anonymous Coward (67.69.227.99) on

        The last video I watched in this channel (jdixons' BSD is Dying talk) had a high quality thing. Somehow, the quality degraded halfway through the talk, but the first part definitely was better quality than the 'normal quality' video. Maybe that's cause BSD was dying? (just a joke). =)

    2. By Simon Lundström (simmel) on

      > Anyone knows why "watch in high quality" option is not available for this channel?

      Because the user has to upload the video in MPEG-4 H.264.

      (That sentence sounds weird, but I can't rewrite it)

  4. By corey (208.191.177.19) on

    Quite an entertaining talk. Out of curiosity, what presentation tool do you use?

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    1. By jason (jason) on http://www.dixongroup.net/

      > Quite an entertaining talk. Out of curiosity, what presentation tool do you use?

      Not sure if you're referring to mine or another speaker. I use Apple Keynote for this style of presentation, which requires a *lot* of slides. "BSD is Dying" was 250 slides long, "BSD v GPL" was over 200. My technical presentations have been done in OpenOffice.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (208.191.177.19) on

        Yes, it was yours; thanks for the info. I've never tried Keynote, as I don't have a Mac, but I have used Impress and, out of necessity at work, Powerpoint. I just didn't want to possibly miss out on some nice open-source tool I didn't know about :)

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