Michael Dale w3c Video Workshop

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Michael Dale w3c Video Workshop University of
California Santa Cruz
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Metavid Free Online Video

• Metavid Motivation
• MetavidWiki

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Metavid Motivation

• Began as collaborative thesis project with Aphid
• _at_ UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts New Media program
• A desire to create political video...

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Metavid History

• leads us to a shopping cart (

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Metavid History

• An expensive Shooing Cart

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Metavid History

• Footage of our Representatives should be public
  domain..

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Metavid History
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Metavid History

• So the footage was public domain but
  encapsulated with a trade mark....

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Metavid Motivation

• ok, now the footage has been de-encapsulated and
  returned to the public domain
• now we don't have to pay/negotiate content
  licenses for reuse.

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Metavid Motivation

• What about software licenses?
• Free playback and free reuse?
• Open collaborative metadata?

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Enter the Open Source Ecosystem!
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almost there...

• What about free playback in both proprietary and
  free environments?

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Enter mv_embed

• Transparently re-writes html5 ltvideogt tag for
  contemporary browsers (for theora embedding)?
• Uses whatever plugin is available
• vlc(win,linux,mac) (firefox IE)?
• Oggplay(in beta)Firefox(win,linux,mac) IE future
• Java cortado (java based (no install on most
  platforms)
• Mplayer, Totem (linux firefox only)
• In the future... native Support in Firefox Opera

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MetavidWiki

• What about open collaborative metadata?

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Enter MetavidWiki


SemanticWiki
MediaWiki

MetavidWiki
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MetavidWiki

• onto the demo

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Supported By A Grant From The
http//www.sunlightfoundation.com/
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MetavidWiki

• questions?