Fwd: Some PyCon videos won't play

[Steve Holden]

Lan Qing wrote:
> In China these video can not watch at all. I must spent 3 days to
> download it...
> 
That's a great pity. If they would be useful to a large population
perhaps we could consider having copies hosted where they would be
available with higher bandwidth?

Who could we (the Python Software Foundation) discuss such a project with?

regards
 Steve

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu
> <mailto:tjreedy at udel.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     On 3/14/2010 2:41 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
>         On 3/14/2010 11:14 AM, David Boddie wrote:
> 
> 
>             You should still be able to get at the videos themselves by
>             inspecting
>             the page contents, looking for download links like this one:
> 
>             http://blip.tv/file/get/Pycon-PyCon2010UsingPythonToCreateRoboticSimulationsForPlaneta894.ogv
> 
> 
>             In this case, it's an Ogg Theora video file, so you may want
>             to use
>             a player like VLC to view it:
> 
> 
>         For people using html5 competant browsers, which, I believe,
>         play .ogv
>         'in tha page', blip.tv <http://blip.tv> just needs to update
>         site to make html5 pages an
>         alternative to using the flash player.
> 
> 
>     Actually, for FF3.6, at least, the problem is already solved. I just
>     click on the download button and FF recognizes .ogv as something it
>     can play and it does, replacing the flash player. The FF player
>     lacks a full-screen button, but that is rarely needed for the talks.
> 
>     tjr
> 
> 
> 
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