Ineiev, can you tell me when everything is done? Can someone else
prepare the letter for that case, so I can sign it? I unfortunately
don't have any time ressource for pdfreaders the next two weeks.
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On Monday 29 November 2010 00:30:58 Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> apperently I received the answers off-list (see below) and they
> landed in my spam-box :/ Anway, I am not completely sure what he is
> trying to tell me.
> Can someone confirm that the files were replaced, or can someone on
> our side just convert the stuff by the means I described and give
> them the files?
> I think I got a little too technical there. Maybe quality is not the
> most important thing here[1].
>
> Can someone prepare the letter, so they have something to hang on
> there wall? It seems rather important to them, and although I don't
> in general support school rankings and competitions, in this case it
> might create a good example to other schools in Russia.
> Who should we put as signee on the letter? MK as German head? Karsten
> as Prez? Me or Henner as official spokespeople for pdfreaders.org?
> Any of the interns as the people doing most of the work right now?
> Or even people of the edu team?
> → So many people involved right now ;)
>
> > On Sunday 28 November 2010 07:20:50 Ineiev wrote:
> > > Hi, Hannes!
> > >
> > > > IIRC VLC uses ffmpeg's vorbis-encoder, which has a poorer
> > > > quality than others.
> > >
> > > I'm not familiar with these jobs; could you elaborate about
> > > better choices?
> >
> > Anything which uses libvorbis for encoding should be fine, e.g. the
> > command line tool oggenc, or mp32ogg, which should be more user
> > friendly. By googling I just found some windows software[1], but I
>
> don't
>
> > know which encoder it uses and it might be proprietary.
> >
> > > > I don't know of a user-friendly alternative on Windows,
> > > > though.
> > >
> > > I don't think we have to restrict ourselves with Windows.
> > > I could do it e.g. on Trisquel 4.0.
> >
> > This looks like it does the job[2].
> > It uses gstreamer, which is decent quality I think.
> >
> > > > In general it would be good to encode from the original source
> > > > of course.
> > >
> > > I think Alexandr may know for which files this can be done. what
>
> are
>
> > > your recommendations about how to do this?
> >
> > Well, just take the wav files or higher quality source files for
> > encoding.
> >
> > > > I think youtube is not that much of an issue, since they are
> > > > moving to free formats right now.
> > >
> > > Good.
> > >
> > > > However, if you can provide all the links to youtube than I
> > > > can check if WebM-Versions are already available (which they
> > > > could download and offer directly if desired).
> > >
> > >
http://www.youtube.com/v/a27HvD5I1wk&hl=ru&fs=1
> > >
http://www.youtube.com/v/eg48NvtIxNM&hl=ru&fs=1
> > >
http://www.youtube.com/v/fBN4HhdFr9Y&hl=ru&fs=1&;
> > >
http://www.youtube.com/v/J9OyJpL3XCw&hl=ru_RU&fs=1&;
> > >
http://www.youtube.com/v/KdWOV30NLGI&hl=ru&fs=1
> > >
http://www.youtube.com/v/KdWOV30NLGI&hl=ru&fs=1
> >
> > They are not available as WebM (yet). You can check by using
> > youtube-
>
> dl
>
> > [3]. Just type in
> > youtube-dl -f 43 "URL"
> > "-f 43" ist for regular size WebM, "-f 45" is for HD WebM. Once you
>
> have
>
> > the files, you can offer them for regular download on your
> > web-page. If you use a current version of Firefox than you can use
> > firefogg[4]
>
> to
>
> > create free format videos, either OGV or WebM.
> > As I said, I am not sure if this is crucial, since I expect youtube
> > to convert everything sooner or later. What do the others think?
>
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> Рады сотрудничеству!
>
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>
> Subject: Re: [edu-team] ответ на письмо 10/11/2010 (Antwort auf das
> Schreiben 2010.10.11)
> Date: Sunday 28 November 2010, 09:57:57
> From: МОУ Кромская средняя общеобразовательная школа
>
KromShkola@ya.ru To: Hannes Hauswedell
h2@fsfe.org
>
> Hello.
> Thank you for your assistance in converting files from youtube. All
> links will necessarily available at Kromskoye secondary school:
>
http://kromshkola.ucoz.ru/.
> Be good if you do not complicate it to convert all other files on our
> website and send a link and we will place them on the site. We just
> have a problem with some programs. And your help to accelerate their
> transformation to this matter. We hope for your understanding and
> cooperation. And just be grateful for an official letter of thanks
> for our work and appreciated the school site.
> Sincerely Deputy Director for Information and Communication
> Technology MOU Kromskoye school Sharshunov Alexander.
> P.S. School Address:Российская Федерация
> 303200, Орловская область, п. Кромы, ул. 30 лет Победы, д. 39.
>
> > On Saturday 27 November 2010 19:45:15 Ineiev wrote:
> > > Hi!
> >
> > Hi Ineiev,
> > Thanks for being involved so much with this!
> >
> > > They expect our guidelines; can anybody confirm
> > > that we can treat the next conversions of the files from
> > > the site as recommendations from the FSFE?
> > >
> > > .doc:
> > > convert to PDF (with any program) or .odt (with OpenOffice
>
> Writer)
>
> > > .xls (the results of examinations):
> > > convert to PDF (with any program)
> > >
> > > .ppt .pptx:
> > > convert to .odp (with OpenOffice Impress)
> > >
> > > .rar:
> > > repack into .zip; convert the contents if needed
> > >
> > > .mp3:
> > > convert to OGG Vorbis (with VLC)
> >
> > IIRC VLC uses ffmpeg's vorbis-encoder, which has a poorer quality
> > than others. I don't know of a user-friendly alternative on
> > Windows,
>
> though.
>
> > In general it would be good to encode from the original source of
> > course.
> >
> > > Also, I need to know how we should deal with
> > >
http://kromshkola.ucoz.ru/uroki/__.pps and YouTube videos.
> >
> > I think youtube is not that much of an issue, since they are moving
> > to free formats right now.
> > However, if you can provide all the links to youtube than I can
> > check
>
> if
>
> > WebM-Versions are already available (which they could download and
>
> offer
>
> > directly if desired).
>
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