Guadec live streams available, are history in the making

By Benjamin Humphrey, Published July 28, 2010

The annual GNOME conference for developers and community members alike is running this week in The Hague, Netherlands.

From the GUADEC web site:

GUADEC (pronounced gwah-dec) is the largest get together of GNOME users, developers, foundation leaders, individuals, governments and businesses in the world.

GUADEC is an acronym for the GNOME Users' And Developers' European Conference. Held annually in cities around Europe, presentations are given by software developers, business leaders and users who are involved in Open Source, Free Software and of course, GNOME.

These combine with many practical sessions and discussion groups which set the direction of the GNOME project. It also aims to attract new developers and contributors, as well has serve as a meeting point for corporate interests and allow us to showcase some of the latest technologies.


Live stream is history in the making

Of note, Guadec will be the very first event to be streamed live in the new WebM video format thanks to Flumotion – a company specialising in online video streaming technology and services.

You can watch a live stream of the action right on the main page provided your browser supports WebM. Otherwise, copy and pasting this link into VLC should work too:
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Simon

    It doesn’t work in VLC nor Firefox nor Chrome… What to install to watch this?

    • Anonymous

      You need Opera 10.60 or Firefox 4. WebM is very new and has only just been implemented. It’s not in the Linux Chrome 6 dev builds yet.Opera 10.60 http://www.opera.com/browser/download/Firefox 4 nightly builds http://nightly.mozilla.org/

      • Anonymous

        Actually, the Linux Chromium nightly builds have full WebM support. ;)

        • Anonymous

          Ahhh. I’m using the dev version of Chrome and it didn’t work.

        • Anonymous

          Ahhh. I’m using the dev version of Chrome and it didn’t work.

      • Anonymous

        Actually, the Linux Chromium nightly builds have full WebM support. ;)

  • http://twitter.com/cumulus007 Cumulus007

    It’s not working here, Totem, VLC nor mplayer are able to play. I suspect a server issue, since at least mplayer tries to fill the cache.

  • Dominick

    With such lack of WebM implementation this move seems a bit silly.

  • Anonymous

    I can’t see the stream! I downloaded the Firefox 4 Beta 2 from the website, VLC doesn’t play it either. I’m gonna try getting Opera.

  • Anonymous

    Ok. It didn’t work in Opera either, neither in Totem… What is up?

  • Anonymous

    I thought WebM couldn’t handle streaming and didn’t let you jump to a specific point in an online video like flash does.