This week GUADEC, the important meeting of the open source GNOME community, becomes the first event worldwide to be streamed live in WebM.
WebM is a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone. It replaces Theora as the preferred free format for HTML5 video. Flumotion, a leading company in online video streaming technology and services, is streaming the GUADEC conference from July 28—30th live in the new WebM video format.
Flumotion is on the cutting edge of open video streaming, and frequently demonstrates the agility of open source development. Within 20 hours of VP8’s release, Fluendo integrated the new codec into its streaming software. 28 hours later, Flumotion provided the first demo of a live stream in WebM.
OVA has partnered with Flumotion on the Filmmaker Summit at Slamdance and the Wireside Chat with Lawrence Lessig. We’re pleased to announce that we will be working with Flumotion to offer a WebM stream of the upcoming Open Video Conference, this October 1-2 in New York City.
