P2P Audiovisual Guide

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

New Links

Publishing

Plumi http://blog.plumi.org/ "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."

Show in a Box http://showinabox.tv/ "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."

Selling/Buying

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

Vlogging Project

Semanal http://semanal.org/ "One video per week for all of 2008"

How-To

Video Production Basics

The blip.tv Learning Center http://blip.tv/learning/ "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."

Tutorials/Help

10 Tips for Editing a Podcast in GarageBand http://www.voiceovertimes.com/2008/01/04/10-tips-for-editing-a-podcast-in-garageband/

What is the Audio/Video Edition of NGO-in-a-box? http://av.ngoinabox.org/ "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."

(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)

Useful Software

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) offers FFMPEG2THEORA http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/FFMPEG2THEORA - for OS X users specially interesting seems the Simple Theora Encoder (direct download link:) http://www.v2v.cc/~j/Simple%20Theora%20Encoder.dmg

Media to Mobile Phones

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

Related Blogs/Sites

Transmission http://www.transmission.cc/ "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."

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, 1.6 MB - www.the-future-of-ideas.com

About

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.

This is a Wiki - if you, the reader, have information that you feel is missing and want to share: get involved and help building the P2P Audiovisual section!

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.

Category:Audiovisual