At the IBC, the EBU this year will host an Open Source Meetup to help share knowledge of open source software relevant for media organisations. It will take place on Saturday 13 Sep from 17:00 hrs at the EBU booth (10.F20).
The meetup features a series of 5 minutes lighting talks on topics such as graphics, video play-out, audio & video encoding/transcoding, and digital radio broadcasting. Currently confirmed presentations include:
- EBU & Open Source - an overview
- Transcoding video in the cloud for a Top 5 video site (Vimeo)
- OpenOB Audio over IP for contribution
- Why open source lets me sleep at night (TraceTV)
- CasparCG, presented by Swiss Tele1
- DAB+ local radio broadcasting using mmbtools
There are a few lighting talk slots left - contact us if you want to present a project/use case.
We advise you to register if you plan to come to this event.
Open Source for broadcasters
The EBU has been actively addressing the relevance of Open Source for media applications for several years now, especially since the first visit of Tux to the EBU in 2007 . Since then the interest in the topic has grown, not only because of the events organised ( EBU RadioHack 2012 , Libre Software Meeting 2012 , EBU RadioHack 2013 , Libre Software Meeting 2013 , EBU DevCon 2013 , EBU RadioHack 2014 ), but especially because the industry is moving to more IT-based practices, which often in one way or the other make use of Open Source Software.
This brings many benefits to broadcasters, because as media systems become more complex, the open approach helps avoiding lock-in and it speeds up the development process by reusing instead of reinventing. Additionally, open source may be used as defacto "software standards" or at least can help in quickly developing and sharing reference ore example implementations for new specifications. This is one of the reasons why the EBU has started the EBU.IO platform, a place to quickly find projects, tools and people related to software relevant for broadcasters. Join the Meetup at IBC to learn more!