{"id":361,"date":"2009-06-11T02:05:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=361"},"modified":"2009-06-13T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T07:17:33","slug":"jimmy-wales-in-bulgaria-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2009\/06\/11\/jimmy-wales-in-bulgaria-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Wales in Sofia, Bulgaria (full video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6th, I was lucky to listen &#8216;live&#8217; to Jimmy Wales &#8212; the guy who invented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikipedia.org\/\" title=\"The free online encyclopedia\">Wikipedia<\/a>. Jimmy (or &#8216;Jimbo&#8217;, as he prefers to be called himself) has a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jimmywales.com\/\" title=\"The blog of Jimmy Wales\">personal blog<\/a> and&#8230; (of course!) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Wales\">a page in Wikipedia<\/a>;-)<\/p>\n<p>I was able to record almost everything on video, and now, finally, I&#8217;ve succeeded in encoding &#038; uploading the files&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here they are!<\/p>\n<p>Part 1 (~35 minutes):<\/p>\n<p id=\"jimmywales1\">[Flash player with embedded video of Jimmy Wales, Sofia, June 6th 2009 (#01)]<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar s1 = new SWFObject(\"\/js\/player.swf\",\"player\",\"640\",\"500\",\"9\");\ns1.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\",\"true\");\ns1.addParam(\"allowscriptaccess\",\"always\");\ns1.addParam(\"flashvars\",\"file=https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2009\/06\/jimmy-wales\/mvi_4143_jimmy_wales_part1.f4v\");\ns1.write(\"jimmywales1\");\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Part 2 (~45 minutes):<\/p>\n<p id=\"jimmywales2\">[Flash player with embedded video of Jimmy Wales, Sofia, June 6th 2009 (#02)]<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar s1 = new SWFObject(\"\/js\/player.swf\",\"player\",\"640\",\"500\",\"9\");\ns1.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\",\"true\");\ns1.addParam(\"allowscriptaccess\",\"always\");\ns1.addParam(\"flashvars\",\"file=https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2009\/06\/jimmy-wales\/mvi_4148_jimmy_wales_part2.f4v\");\ns1.write(\"jimmywales2\");\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Part 3 (~20 minutes):<\/p>\n<p id=\"jimmywales3\">[Flash player with embedded video of Jimmy Wales, Sofia, June 6th 2009 (#03)]<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nvar s1 = new SWFObject(\"\/js\/player.swf\",\"player\",\"640\",\"500\",\"9\");\ns1.addParam(\"allowfullscreen\",\"true\");\ns1.addParam(\"allowscriptaccess\",\"always\");\ns1.addParam(\"flashvars\",\"file=https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2009\/06\/jimmy-wales\/mvi_4149_jimmy_wales_part3.f4v\");\ns1.write(\"jimmywales3\");\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you&#8217;re curious, here are some notes:<\/p>\n<p>1) The total length of the videos is around 100 minutes. They&#8217;re split in three parts: Part #1 (~35 minutes), Part #2 (~45 minutes), Part #3 (~20 minutes).<\/p>\n<p>2) These 100 minutes of video are un-edited and show the presentation of Jimmy Wales almost in full &#8212; actually, maybe only half a minute of video is missing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>3) I have started the recoding a couple of seconds after Jimmy came to the stage of the theater and started speaking. I&#8217;ve ended it right after he left. During the recoding, I had to change the batteries (and the 8 GB SDHC card) once, just in case, which is exactly where the pause between videos #1 and #2 is. This pause was not longer than 15-20 seconds. Then, there was another pause (between videos #2 and #3), but it was less than 2 seconds. Also, during recording, I made maybe 2-3 photos, which are the cause for a couple of less-than-a-second interruptions, and that&#8217;s all. Apart from that, the video is completely un-cut.<\/p>\n<p>4) The presentation of Jimmy was 40 minutes long + there were 60 additional minutes, filled with questions &#038; answers. So, what you&#8217;re about to see is:<\/p>\n<p>#1 (35 minutes): the presentation of Jimmy Wales (it continues on video #2);<br \/>\n#2 (45 minutes): the first 4 minutes are the end of his presentation &#8212; after that, the questions&#8217; part begins;<br \/>\n#3 (20 minutes): the questions&#8217; part continues, and then the evening is over and Jimmy is leaving.<\/p>\n<p><em>(I am not that good with editing video, so I was unable to merge all there videos into one, but this is not that important, I hope:)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>5) Original videos were in very good quality &#8212; .AVI format, 640 x 480 px, approx. 16 Mbps (video+audio streams), with stereo sound. I re-encoded them to .f4v format and brought them down to less than 2 Mbps, while the quality of the video\/audio remained almost unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>6) Encoding was made using Adobe Flash Media Encoder CS4: approx. 1.3-1.8 Mbps H.264 video and 128 kbps AAC2 audio. The player I am using here to embed them is JW FLV Player, which does a great work.<\/p>\n<p>6) You&#8217;ll need a relatively new computer (Pentium 4 or better will do well) + high speed Internet connection, to be able to watch them normally (over 1 Mbps speed is recommended). If your Internet connection is slow (and there are interruptions), start the first video, and put in on &#8216;pause&#8217; for a few minutes. This will allow the player to cache some part of the video stream and then you&#8217;ll be able to watch it normally. Then proceed the same with the other two videos.<\/p>\n<p>7) The videos are not perfect &#8212; sometimes the camera may lose focus for a second or two, for example, or measure the light incorrectly. Also, note that most of the time I have focused the camera on Jimmy (and not on his slides) &#8212; in my defense I can only say that usually, if I did not shift focus to the presentation screen, then the things on the screen were simply the same things that Jimmy said, so I preferred to focus on the lecturer instead;-)<\/p>\n<p>8) The License:<\/p>\n<p>I am releasing these videos under <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" title=\"Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License\">CC-BY-SA<\/a><\/strong> license, which is one of the most liberal Creative Commons licenses. It allows you even the commercial use of the videos, as long as you mention me as their author + put link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\">www.optimiced.com<\/a> (plus, optionally, to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2009\/06\/11\/jimmy-wales-in-bulgaria-video\/\">particular page<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a good idea to link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC license<\/a> I have used, and\/or clearly specify that you are re-distributing them under the same conditions.<\/p>\n<p>9) If you want to re-distribute the videos online:<\/p>\n<p>Here are direct links to the files, which you may download and then upload to your own web server:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2009\/06\/jimmy-wales\/mvi_4143_jimmy_wales_part1.f4v\">mvi_4143_jimmy_wales_part1.f4v<\/a> (~ 362 MB)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2009\/06\/jimmy-wales\/mvi_4148_jimmy_wales_part2.f4v\">mvi_4148_jimmy_wales_part2.f4v<\/a> (~ 456 MB)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2009\/06\/jimmy-wales\/mvi_4149_jimmy_wales_part3.f4v\">mvi_4149_jimmy_wales_part3.f4v<\/a> (~ 210 MB)<\/p>\n<p>After that, you&#8217;ll need some kind of FLV\/F4V Flash player, to embed them in your own website.<\/p>\n<p>For watching the videos offline, the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/download.cnet.com\/FLV-Player\/3000-13632_4-10467081.html\">FLV Player<\/a> will do a great job (works on Windows XP\/Vista; if you are a Mac\/Linux user, you&#8217;ll have to search for yourself, but I am sure you have a solution handy).<\/p>\n<p>10) There is no 10! :-D &#8230;Actually, there is &#8212; please, re-tweet &#038; re-blog the videos, as I am sure that they&#8217;ll be interesting to a lot of people! :)<\/p>\n<p>I hope you will enjoy the videos, too! :-)<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 6th, I was lucky to listen &#8216;live&#8217; to Jimmy Wales &#8212; the guy who invented Wikipedia. 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