P2P Audiovisual Guide

How-to make, promote and find people powered media

Beginner's Guide

Tools and Platforms - How-To - Theory - Tour 1: Indie Film Maker's (Editor's) Tour - Tour 2: Online Audio, Media Publishing & Online Media/Art Communities Tour

How-To's

Image/Video/3D - Audio/Video Players: iTunes/iPod - Zune - Players Supporting Ogg Vorbis - Rockbox: Open Source Jukebox Firmware - (Pro) Video Tutorials - (Pro) Audio Tutorials/Information - FLOSS Manuals - Web Building Tutorials - DVD/PVR/P2P TV/IPTV - Streaming/Webcam - Annotation/Subtitles/Tagging

Resources

Useful Software: Audio/Video Players/Aggregators, Web TV and Codec - Audio/Video/Image Editing and 3D - Audio/Screen Capturing - YouTube Tools - Telephony (VoIP)/Video Calls - Media to Mobile Phones/Digital Movie Distribution - Related Links/Resources - Related Online Articles - Related Blogs/Sites - P2P Related Media - The Directory

Selling/Buying

Brad Sucks Digital Download Store "I needed a cheap, DRM-free digital download store so I wrote this quickly over a few days. Then I thought it'd be useful for other artists. It was created to sell music but any files will work. ... I'm giving this store away for free to help other artists sell their stuff online." (www.bradsucks.net)

1,000 True Fans "Other than aim for a blockbuster hit, what can an artist do to escape the long tail? One solution is to find 1,000 True Fans." (www.kk.org, 04.03.08)

Annotation/Subtitles/Tagging

dotSUB.com is "a browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language" (dotsub.com)

Media to Mobile Phones

Zannel Launching Mobile Microblogging API (mashable.com, 28.02.08)

Gaming

The Wii Owner’s Toolbox: 100 Cool Things to do With Your System (www.virtualhosting.com, 04.03.08)

Publishing

Plumi "is a Free Software video sharing Content Management System based on Plone and produced by the EngageMedia collective. Plumi enables you to create your own sophisticated video sharing site; by adding it to an existing Plone instance you can quickly have a wide array of functionality to facilitate video distribution and community creation." (blog.plumi.org)

Show in a Box "is a package of free video-centric themes and plugins for WordPress, made by and for independent web video creators. All of these tools are open source and ready to be tweaked to look as good as your video content does." (showinabox.tv)

Selling/Buying

Bid4Vid "We connect businesses with independent video producers in an open, secure marketplace to get high-quality videos made at an affordable price." (bid4vid.com)

Vlogging Project

Semanal "One video per week for all of 2008" (semanal.org)

How-To

Video Production Basics

The blip.tv Learning Center "is designed to give those who are new to Web show production a head-start on learning the art, and give experienced producers some tips to help improve their craft." (blip.tv)

Tutorials/Help

What is the Audio/Video Edition of NGO-in-a-box? "The Audio/Video edition of NGO-in-a-Box is a toolkit that lowers the entry level for NGOs, non-profits and media activists wanting to use audio and video for social change." (av.ngoinabox.org)

(Pro) Video Tutorials

AwkwardTV is "dedicated to finding additional uses for the Apple TV by (legitimately) enabling its Potential Capabilities, and is a place for the community to share ideas, discoveries and solutions." (wiki.awkwardtv.org)

Hackint0sh Projects and Hacks: AppleTV, iPhone, iPod Touch and more (www.hackint0sh.org)

Building a video remixing web-site using Annodex - note: this is not the actual tutorial, only the "Talk Details" (linux.conf.au)

Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Etch) is a tutorial in three parts (www.howtoforge.com)

(Pro) Audio Tutorials

10 Tips for Editing a Podcast in GarageBand (www.voiceovertimes.com)

Useful Software

FFMPEG2THEORA offers user friendly solutions for encoding video to the free and open-source Ogg Theora codec (no licensing fees for commercial use in contrast to other proprietary formats) (wiki.transmission.cc) - for OS X users specially interesting seems the Simple Theora Encoder (direct download link) (www.v2v.cc).

Media to Mobile Phones

Open Handset Alliance "Together we have developed Android™, the first complete, open, and free mobile platform." (www.openhandsetalliance.com)

Related Articles

25.02.08 Introducing P2P-Next, a European Union Internet Data and TV Standard (iptv.tmcnet.com)

22.02.08 Adobe cripples Flash video with DRM (www.boingboing.net)

31.01.08 Video Vortex Conference 2008 (1 of 2): Open Source Ways Of Producing, Distributing And Promoting Online Video (indiworks.wordpress.com)

25.01.08 Video Publishing: Fair Use and Copyright Analyzed - Recut, Reframe, Recycle - Robin Good's Latest News (www.masternewmedia.org)

23.01.08 Internet Video Publishing: A Beginner's Guide (www.masternewmedia.org)

21.01.08 An Open Source Media Definition to judge the openness of Open Movies (blog.p2pfoundation.net)

21.01.08 Wikifying video production (announces collaboration with Kaltura) (www.boingboing.net)

01.01.08 20+ Resources For Homebrew Games (mashable.com)

Related Blogs/Sites

Transmission "is a network of citizen journalists, video makers, artists, researchers, programmers and web producers who are developing online video distribution tools for social justice and media democracy." (www.transmission.cc)

P2P Related Media

The Future of Ideas (2001) by Lawrence Lessig is about "The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World - to buy or free .pdf, 368 pages (www.the-future-of-ideas.com)

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The Aim

This section, maintained by Valentin Spirik , will focus on the how-to and technical aspects of producing, finding and distributing audiovisual content using the new autonomous media infrastructure.

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The Wiki Text and The Directory

The Wiki text that follows tries to give the reader an overview to the the audiovisual P2P net by filtering the vast amount of available information by asking questions like "Is this useful, can it be recommended - is it somehow in the interest of either the majority of people or a neglected minority?" (Instead of being a link or site that first of all promotes the interests of e.g. a company.)

The Directory (entries currently listed underneath in "Articles in category 'Audiovisual'") on the other hand tries to collect related sites and links of all sorts - including commercial services - where the criterias mentioned above might or might not apply. Over time however a critical evaluation of the individual entries can be done.

General Hint about Web Services and Software

Just because a web service has a pretty site or because a particular software is open-source does not mean that it is useful for everyone. Especially in the Web 2.0 world there seems to be a certain tendency - maybe out of sympathy for a P2P related project - to over-hype a service or a software project. While this Wiki tries to point in directions that hopefully are useful, the reader's own critical judgement is encouraged when exploring unknown territory or installing and using new software.