The Cambridge Union Society: Video Recording, Friday, 11 May 2007
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Title: President Talabani of Iraq
Event Type: Speaker Meeting
Speaker: President Jalal Talabani
President: Ali Al-Ansari
Runtime: 01:07:18
Recorded at: The Cambridge Union Society, on Friday, 11 May 2007, by Richard Neill.

Copyright, The Cambridge Union Society, 2007
This is released under a Creative commons, attribution, noncommercial, no-derivatives License, whose full terms may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ .
This archive may be located at: http://www.cambridge-union.org

Files
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The following files are included:
* cus_2007-05-11_speaker_president-talabani_archive_mpeg4-768x576-2000k-mp3-48000-192k.avi
This is the main, archival quality video (1051 MB).

* cus_2007-05-11_speaker_president-talabani_stream_mpeg4-640x480-1000k-mp3-48000-128k.avi
Slightly reduced quality, and smaller file-size for general watching. (543 MB).

* cus_2007-05-11_speaker_president-talabani_stream_mpeg4-320x240-300k-mp3-44100-64k.avi
This is designed for ADSL-connections, and is similar quality to YouTube. (179 MB).

* cus_2007-05-11_speaker_president-talabani_stream_mpeg4-320x240x15fps-60k-mp3-22050-24k.avi
This is designed for low-bandwidth connections (or small portable devices). Reduced quality. (45 MB).

* cus_2007-05-11_speaker_president-talabani_stream_vorbis-32000-32k.ogg
This contains just the audio, ideal as a podcast. (16 MB).

The original aspect-ratio is 4:3 at 720x576 pixels, i.e. the standard PAL defaults.
Playback software should automatically scale it to 768x576 (because TV-camera pixels aren't square, but LCD pixels are).
Filenames contain information about the codecs, in the pattern: video{codec-resolution-bitrate}-audio{codec-samplerate-bitrate}
The video is already de-interlaced.

Download Location
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These files may be downloaded from:

* The Cambridge Union Society http://www.cus.org/debate_archive/cus_2007-05-11_speaker_president-talabani
* The Internet Archive mirror http://www.archive.org/details/cus_2007-05-11_speaker_president-talabani

Please use the mirror if you can, for faster downloads.

Playback
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We recommend either of the following programs for playback:

* VideoLAN http://www.videolan.org/
* MPlayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

Both of these are Free Software, work excellently, and are cross-platform (Linux, Macintosh, Windows).
[Unfortunately, Windows Media Player is notoriously incompatible with most file-formats, and we cannot recommend it.]

Credits
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The video-generation script was written by Richard Neill, and is Free Software, released under the GNU GPL v3.
It can be downloaded from http://richardneill.org/source
Particular thanks are due to FFmpeg, for handling most of the format-conversion work: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/