Video Voice for the Voiceless
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Filmmakers using relatively cheap digital technology throw a harsh light on the plight faced by indigenous societies trying to survive the intrusion of a modern world. Jason Silverman reports from New York.
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The DVDirect VRD-MC3 stresses two extremely important attributes: simplicity and reproduction quality.
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Satellite-enabled turn-by-turn navigation, whether you're in a car or on foot
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Mostra multimediale con tecnologie audio-visuali molto avanzate
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In this new post from the splitbrain.org website (creators of the Dokuwiki application), there's an example of how to join wav files together with PHP with a quick and easy script.   I'm currently working on a CAPTCHA plugin for DokuWiki and thought about providing audio output for users not able to see the image. This is pretty simple for CAPTCHAs - there is no need for complicated speech synthesis because you only need recordings of the 26 possible letters. But you need a way of joining those recordings on the fly...   There was an example he found previously, but it seemed like overkill, so he rolled together his own solution - a 24 line script that takes in the filenames of the wav files and spits back out the joined resource. This functionality has already been added to the CAPTCHA plugin if you'd like to check it out.
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By Rhodri Marsden  Even fairly recently, a personal videophone was some absurdly futuristic sci-fi vision, akin to strapping on a jetpack or having a robot do your ironing. But if you have a newer model of mobile phone and a 3G network connection, it may be within reach.
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Device can be connected to a camcorder or VCR for transferring taped footage directly to a DVD, without using a computer.
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Here's an interesting Howto on connecting FlickrFan to the Mac desktop. I love this stuff.  Here's a movie that demonstrates this coolest of hacks.
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Rui Capela's software has appeared in this column many times. I've written about it directly (see At the Sounding Edge: Using QSynth and QJackCtl and HDRs and DAWs For Linux: The New Breed) and it shows up in almost every article I write. I'm not exaggerating when I state that Rui's programs have become indispensable components here at Studio Dave, so naturally I'm interested in the mind behind it all. In this entry I'll recap the nature and state of Rui's software, after which we'll meet the man himself in another lively interview here at the sounding edge.
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Science & environment: Connecting doctors with patients via video is not new - but is now the time for it finally to take off?
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Freevo version 1.7.1 has been released. Freevo is a Linux application that turns a PC with a TV capture card and/or TV-out into a standalone multimedia jukebox/VCR/PVR/HTPC. It uses MPlayer or Xine to play and record audio and video. It is optimized for use with a TV+remote.    In fact it does not need a TV capture card to be a useful tool, you can use it to view movies, listen to music, look at pictures, check the news and see a weather forecast are just some of the possibilities.  This release contains some new features and some significant bug fixes.  A native ALSA misxer has been added, a wide screen skin "Panorama" has been added, a TV recordings manager has been added and user defined commands can now be sent to the Xine player  The TV_RECORD_PADDING has been removed, use TV_RECORD_PADDING_PRE and TV_RECORD_PADDING_POST instead.  Download Freevo here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46652
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A new cell phone is loaded with software that turns text on photographed documents into speech
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Company's emerging-markets group unveils a Web-based audio-video system designed for business use.
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The BBC has demonstrated an open source video codec named Dirac which it claims offers twice the bit rate of MPEG-2. According to a story on The Register, the new codec was revealed at the LinuxWorld exhibition
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In this week's entry we'll look at two more "live" CDs of Linux systems optimized for multimedia creation and performance. I've been having a great time with these systems, and I hope that my mini-profiles inspire you to try them all. They're a great way to introduce someone to Linux, they show off the system optimized for multimedia performance and they provide a wealth of high-quality sound and music software to exploit that system. They all include the standard cornucopia of applications for the mundane tasks, word processing, text editing, graphics, networking, and so on. All that, for the cost of a download and a disc.
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Dual-layer disc to smooth hi-def format adoption
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New voice recognition program, shown at Macworld Expo, borrows technology from Dragon Naturally Speaking.