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I don't know how many people know it, but FOSDEM's video recording infra is a technical masterpiece: All the rooms have a live capture device sitting on the sp
by ai_ja_nai 4y ago
I don't know how many people know it, but FOSDEM's video recording infra is a technical masterpiece:
All the rooms have a live capture device sitting on the speaker's desks. This not only streams every room live on the website, but also deposits the feed on a server .
By the moment your speech is finished, you receive an automated mail with a link to cut your video. It is a limited web editor where you can change the beginning and the end of the stream, and changing audio channel too (talks are recorded with 3 mics).
You can accept the video as it is or do some adjustments and, voilà: a quick ffmpeg and the video is online ready to be viewed in a couple of hours.
I don't know you, but I am not aware of other conferences where the video recording is managed with such a DevOps pipeline.
- jenadine 4y agoWhen there are ~780 talks in ~30 rooms, we understand why automation is required. It is impressive that they manage to get great quality video for most talks.
- detrites 4y agoSounds like a great system many conferences could benefit from. Have they considered, uhh... open sourcing it?
- oever 4y agoYes, it's published: https://github.com/orgs/FOSDEM/repositories https://github.com/orgs/FOSDEM/repositories The videos from FOSDEM, and most conferences, mix slides and filmed presenter into one stream. I would be great if they'd be combined as two streams in one file, so viewers could switch between fullscreen slides and fullscreen presenter.