[nylug-talk] NYLUG's October cornucopia of media starring Sunny Dubey and the NYLUG audience

[Ruben Safir]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 12:53:59AM -0400, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Zachary Whitley wrote:
> 
> > I've never done it but  maybe you  could post it to youtube and let them 
> > deal with it.
> 
> I've been expecting to have to explain why I did it this way, I'm kind
> of surprised it took this long. ;)
> 
> There'd be a lot of good things about having these on YouTube, but
> YouTube only allows videos of 10 minutes in length.  That would mean
> we'd have to divide the video into about 12 parts.  Aside from that, I'm
> having a hit put out on whoever came up with this idea to stuff video
> into Flash files.
> 
> I got the idea to put stuff up on archive.org from our friends at LILUG,
> but I'm reluctant to put the digital camera videos up there when we've
> got these DV tapes which should be better quality, and that's what I
> want to have saved for posterity.  The digital camera videos are
> essentially for the sake of having *something*, and to hopefully
> encourage more people to volunteer to help out, because while we've had
> some great people help out, we don't get enough of their time to get
> across the finish line.  As my grandmother used to say, many hands make
> light work.
> 
> - Ron


With yuotube you have to lock everything up in a proprietary format.

Have you seen this company/project?

http://www.hopeandtube.com/vod/superman/

Ruben


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