OpenMedia at Auckland BarCamp
Steve from OpenMedia had the great privileged of being able to present two sessions at yesterday’s Auckland BarCamp. Many thanks to Ludwig and his great team for organising such an amazing event, along with one of the best conference T-Shirts I’ve ever seen.
It was a great opportunity to catch up with Regan from Throng, Robert O’Callahan from Mozilla, and a number of the guys off geekzone.co.nz including Mauricio Freitas and Fossie.
Our presentations included a round up on the state of Digital TV in New Zealand, including a Live Demo of freeview’s DTT test channels. Steve also talked on the challenges facing Open Source adoption, in particular issues around media playback given existing patent restrictions. You can find links to both of the presentations below.
We hope to have an update at http://www.mythtv.co.nz shortly on the DTT testing, including details on the use of AAC audio on the TVNZ multiplex. It looks like we are in for a very interesting DTT platform.