transmediale is finally coming. The 2k+12 edition of the media art, design and culture Berliner festival is running to the opening the next 31 January, taking place until 5 February at the wonderful Haus...
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At transmediale 2012, which will take place from 31 January to 5 February at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt with the new Artistic Director Kristoffer Gansing, everything will revolve around the theme in/compatible.
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This weekend, January 20th - 22nd, there was a video activism gathering in
London. During the process several ideas were generated that relate to indymedia and the way it handles video.
1. having all uploaded videos automatically transcoded into the most
popular mobile video codecs such as 3GP, PSP etc for video capable mobile phones, ipods, psp
etc. The idea would be that as well as the option to download or view
the videos in the format provided by the person who uploaded them, there would also be an option to
download a version for your mobile device which could then be passed on virally by bluetooth
etc and increase the audience beyond those who come to indymedia or have internet access. Such
devices are increasingly common and there is apparently little worthwhile content.
2. Have a specific publish page for video (linked to from the current
publish page). This new publish page would be more focused to helping the user provide decent meta data and also promote good practice in terms of which wrapper, codec, bitrate etc are used. It
would also provide links to how-to-guides codecs, free software tools etc.
3. Additionally, the publish page should allow people to specify a
link to a video file stored elsewhere instead of or including uploading a video file. Articles posted
that contain links to video files should be automatically flagged as video files just like those that actually
contain attached files.
4. Articles with video content or links to video content should be
identified by mir when generating the html pages and add a prominent box which contains the links,
perhaps with multiple options as appropriate for watching or downloading specific file types. It
should also contain brief help information and links to further info for users who may experience difficulty viewing the video files and may need to install additional codecs or free media player software.
5. Ideally there would be much better intergration between UK (or any
local IMC such as indymedia.ie) and the video.indy site. One idea was to have a specific publish
page for video on IMC UK which contains more specific fields for video and actually uploads the
video file to video.indymedia.org rather than UK but also places an entry into the newswire which is
flagged as being a video containing article but infact just links to the file on video.indy.
The advantage to the uploaded is only needed to do one upload. The
advantage to indy UK is less load on bandwidth and servers. The advantage to video.indy users is a one
stop shop and the advantage to UK indy users is there get to hear about stuff uploaded to video.indy
even though they might not know of the sites existence. The problems include the fact that video.indy is
currently not capable of relating more than one uploaded version to a specific record. (in other words you can't have a .mov and a .avi of the same video without generation two records which is a real pain in the arse).
6. UK indymedia needs a video newswire. Ideally generated on the video projects page and given links from any page containing video and perhaps also linked to from a little
video camera icon near the current newswire column.
