[Foundation-l] REMINDER: Skypecast - Wikipedia Conversation from Florida

Fri Aug 25 23:26:41 UTC 2006

On 8/25/06, Walter Vermeir <walter at wikipedia.be> wrote:
> Most of these few Ogg Vorbis recordings there have I recorded. And the
> are the only recording availbel for some of the most interesting
> sessions like the "Wikimedia Foundation Board Panel" or "Wikimedia
> Foundation: building in diversity"
>
> The are made from the RealMedia live-stream, played with gxine and
> recorded with Audacity  and exported to Ogg Vorbis on a gnu/linux
> computer powered with green electricity. The are not transcoded from mp3
> to Ogg Vrobis.
>
> So far I see on the list there are no transcoded recordings on the
> archive page. There are only mp3 recordings or Ogg Vorbis present, and
> not both for the same sessions.

Someone sent me a transcoded Ogg of the arbcom panel which sounded
terrible, as typical for a low bitrate ogg transcoded from a low
bitrate MP3.

I intended no insult to your files, although I had assumed they would
be just as bad. :)