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22c3 Update: What happened to the video recordings and when will they be available? 04.02.2006

Some folks are starting to complain again as the video recordings of the 22. Chaos Comuncation Congress 2005 are not available yet.

The recordings are not lost, they are indeed complete and in a very good condition - but only on the 400 digital video tapes. As the 22C3-video crew from the Streamingteam of FeM e.V. tells us in this posting, there is an easy explanation to this. They started working on the recordings straight after the congress and soon had to realise, that almost all of the recordings that they made live through ffmpeg etc. were corrupted: The audio and video is just not in sync and it this wrong sync is changing all through the recordings so nobody can shift video and audio until its okay again.

Here’s what they did than:

So we engaged DEFCON 4 and got back on our backup solution that was there, just in case the open source would not work (who would have thought that?!).

So what’s DEFCON 4? We came to the congress with 400 brand new DV tapes. And that’s simply our backup solution: Everything that was recorded on the 22c3 is on DV tape. And it’s in sync there.

So we are extracting nearly all of the recordings from those DV tapes…

And as you can imagine: that takes time. It takes less time than we’d expected - so we are making serious progress. Together with the CCC it was decided that an intro and outro should be added to each recording - that also takes some time. If you are experienced in creating scripted/batched DV material with definable text… we obviously need your help :-)

So when will the recordings be available? We hope very very soon. Like I said we are making good progress in getting the stuff from the tapes but it’s very difficult to give a time line. Check back here for updated information - … well if we can get the intro/outro issue working fast it’ll probably be only days away.

Source and Weblink: http://www.schrankmonster.de/ […]

Read more about the fileformats and codecs of the 22C3-recordings here: http://events.ccc.de/2006/01/09/22c3-recordings-and-slides/