Jon Dahl, a local Minneapolis Rubyist… gave a talk on video transcoding.
Once again, just some very high level information… got a few bits of information on how things are done, shown a little bit of Ruby code…
But Jon, I’m sorry man but it felt a little disorganized. Since I’ve worked with a video transcoding system with Rails I know what’s going on… it just didn’t seem to flow well.
Some people (one guy that sat next to me) actually left cause he got confused. :: shrugs ::
The articles (that Jon wrote) over on Rails Spikes would server a lot better than what he presented here…
It’s hit and miss and I’ve had plenty of talks that have gone worse…
The one thing I’ll give him is doing a VERY good job of showing sample videos of different codecs and bitrates.
(my excitement is building for the zefrank keynote).