I really ought to mention that I will be giving two presentations at LinuxTag, the premier Linux event in Europe:
- Breaking Eggs And Making Omelettes: Intelligence Gathering For Open Source Software Development: Friday, June 24 @ 13:30
- Trash Multimedia On Linux: Thursday, June 23 @ 19:00
Yep, I represent the “Loose Confederation Of Multimedia Hackers”. Distinguished. Anyway, the title of my main talk is clearly inspired by this blog. I plan to present an overview of different techniques used to get at proprietary algorithms needed to implement free software, including, but not limited to, binary software reverse engineering.
The second talk, an evening event, is another of my “Trash Multimedia” presentations where the audience gets to see where multimedia went right and wrong. The emphasis here will be on technologies that were reverse engineered.
So come one, come all! Also, I am by no means the only multimedia hacker scheduled for this event. Some other multimedia-related talks:
- Videobearbeitung mit MLT by Torsten Spindler
- Sex, Lie^Hnux and Video by Torsten Spindler
- FFMPEG by Martin Böhme
- MPlayer – Der Movie Player by Diego Biurrun
- xine – Multimedia aus dem Baukasten by Siggi Langauf
- Free Hardware Implementation of Theora Videoencoder by Andrey Filippov
- VLC Media Player by Benjamin Pracht
- Free software for the digital musician by Christoph Eckert
- Videostreaming in der Gebäude- automation by Silke Berit Lang
- VJing und Videobearbeitung mit LiVES by Gabriel Finch
- DVD Authoring by Ian Pointer
- KDE Multimedia Roadmap by Scott Wheeler and Matthias Kretz