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Guide to Digital Video Distro
The following aims to be an overview of the issues and procedures involved in distributing video produced by or for NGOs and non-profits using DVD/VCD and the web. This will hopefully also serve as a practical methodology for using free and open source software as part of a digital video distribution strategy.
This guide can be read or printed as a single page here. Or you can download it as a PDF.
CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- DIGITAL VIDEO BASICS
- Player Software
- Compression
- Codecs
- Container Formats
- Standards
- Mobile Devices
- ONLINE DISTRIBUTION
- BROADBAND DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY
- Screening quality video
- Video for viewing on computer or within the browser
- Peer-to-Peer file sharing
- Vodcasting
- DVD AND VCD DISTRIBUTION
- DVD
- Steps involved in authoring a DVD
- VCD
- Steps involved in making a VCD
- CONCLUSION
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Here is a list of articles about using video for social change:
Using Grassroots Documentary Films for Political Change
http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page5286.cfm
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by the contributing author.
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anna. (2006, September 17). Guide to Digital Video Distro. Retrieved October 08, 2008, from EngageMedia Web site: http://www.engagemedia.org/guide-to-digital-video-distro.
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