Hey :) On 18/02/2008, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > > We have been discussing taking Free Me to the next step. Free Me is a > collection of open licensed content bundled with a Live CD. Jonathan > Roberts, I appreciate your suggestions. Let's get started. Wow, totally awesome that you're picking this up now!! I wish I'd been able to finish it properly myself but I didn't have the skills to polish it like it needed so perhaps you can all do it justice :) One comment I do have though, and which I guess you're all aware of, is the CC LiveContent which came along just as mine finished - part of the reason it finished actually! There's is Fedora based too I think... > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram/FreeMeToo > > In particular, any hints on finding some of the content under open codec > formats or conversion procedures would be appreciated. Conversion procedures I can definitely help with, though you might need people to tweak it a little bit as I had some quality problems and issues with PAL/NTSC and sections being cut off the edge of the screen... ffmpeg2theora I think is the best tool for the conversion of the video, and then there's loads of small command line apps which will convert entire folders of audio to ogg too :) I'll try and remember what I used. This article might be of some use: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/command_line_media_editing Oh and another point: part of my goals with free me was to make it workable without even having to boot the live disc, so I made sure all the content was accessed from a folder in the root of the disc which was pointed at by a sym link. I think this is definitely worth doing, and maybe an autorun for windows users to fire up a browser with some more info? OpenCD style... I also put the videos on as a video dvd so it would work in a standalone player, but there were issues between the two different filesystem types that caused it to not work on some older bioses. >Additional > content suggestions too. Music, Videos, Books etc. They should be freely > distributable and preferably have no use restrictions. I will put > together a Fedora spin bundling all these content after sometime. I'll take a look at the list you already have and add anything else i can think of. I guess you checked the list on freeme.questionsplease.org? Thanks all, and best of luck! Jon -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
