DebConf15/Videoteam/Veyepar

We use veyepar to review and transcode talks. Veyepar was used at Debconf14 too.

First review

If you want to help, do the following:

• Find a network cable. Reviewing DV files over wireless is no fun.
• Mount storage2.dc15.debconf.org:/video on a local directory somewhere.
  • Be sure to be on a wired network. This won't work over wifi
  • storage type is nfs. You'll need the nfs-client package
  • mount storage2.dc15.debconf.org:/video /mnt should do the trick
• Go to the veyepar interface for debconf15. At the top of the page, log in as user reviewer, password reviewdc15.
• Coordinate on the #debconf-video channel which talk you're going to review. Talks to review are in "edit" state (#1).
• The files are in dv/<room>/<date>/<start hour>.dv. Veyepar will make an educated guess as to which files belong to which talk. Play the files it suggests in a media player, and confirm that they contain the complete talk. Next, do one or more of the following, as appropriate:
  • If veyepar included a file that shouldn't be part of this talk, deselect the "Apply:" checkmark for the relevant file.
  • If veyepar missed some files, enter the filename of the missed file (including the last directory, the one containing the date) in the "Rf filename:" form at the bottom, enable the "get this:" checkbox below that, and hit the bottom "Save" button on the webform. The form will refresh, and the missing file should now be added.
  • If some of the recorded files contain large amounts of noninteresting information (e.g., the recording starts with 10 minutes of people walking into the room, people walking out of the room, the speaker testing his microphone, etc), click on the "Show more..." check box of the relevant file. In the "cut list" web form, enter the start and/or end times of the interesting content.
    • Note: the times to enter here (in HH:mm:ss format) are the times from the beginning of that particular file, as they are shown by a media player ; not the wall clock time or the time from the end (for end clock) or time from start of usable recording or whatnot.
    • If you enter a time, make sure that you do not forget to enter the hours too. Otherwise it gets interpreted as hh:mm rather than mm:ss, and your timestamps are very much off.
  • If veyepar's educated guess is correct or you are happy with the changes you've made, simply ensure (all) the relevant file(s) have the "Apply:" checkbox enabled, ensure that the "state" is set to "encode", and hit the topmost "Save" button on the webform.
• Move on to the next talk.

Note, it is not possible to do something wrong. Transcoding a video does not destroy the original files, so it is always possible to clear the form and start over. Feel free to experiment!

Final review

Don't forget to coordinate on IRC!

Once talks have been encoded and published (in "push to queue" state), we need to review them again to make sure everything is fine. You don't need to watch the whole video: bits here and there is fine (specifically, but not only, beginning and ending).

For final review, if your browser support webm format:

- see files on http://video.debian.net

OR

- see files on veyepar's webm link

If you do not have a webm compliant browser, you can use the /webm folder to see the final files, as you did for first review with /dv folder to see the recorded files.

Once you have seen the video, several possibilities:

• you are sure the video is OK, simply put the videos to the "done" state (#12) in veyepar.
• if you notice the first reviewer cut off too much (and whatever is lost can be found in the .dv files), edit the list of changes and set it to "encode" again.
• if it is unusable, set it to "borked" and talk to wouter

Don't forget to coordinate on IRC!

Hints on veyepar states for DebConf 2015

value	name	(m)anually/(a)utomatically set	meaning (roughly deducted, feel free to specify)
0	borked	m	Something went wrong, special care must be taken, indicate it in comments. Do not use without telling wouter.
1	edit	??	A First review must be done an theses files. See above.
2	encode	m	Files have been reviewed once, they will be transcoded. See above.
3	push to queue	a	Transcoded files have been built, final review needs to be done.
4	post	N/A	Not used
5	richard	N/A	Not used
6	review 1	N/A	Not used
7	email	N/A	Not used
8	review 2	N/A	Not used
9	make public	N/A	Not used
10	tweet	N/A	Not used
11	to-miror	N/A	Not used
12	done	m	Transcoded files have been reviewed and are good to be published, see above.