On Saturday and Sunday, Nottingham hosted a national gathering of the UK Indymedia network, bringing together around 40 people from as far afield as Scotland and Bristol.
A whole host of issues were discussed, such as the future of Indymedia, developments on the startpage and calendar, and aspects of moderating the site. A range of viewpoints on the role of Indymedia were expressed, and a number of proposals to take the project forward will be implemented as a result of the gathering.
Here are some interviews with participants at the gathering, from various other local Indymedia collectives..
A whole host of issues were discussed, such as the future of Indymedia, developments on the startpage and calendar, and aspects of moderating the site. A range of viewpoints on the role of Indymedia were expressed, and a number of proposals to take the project forward will be implemented as a result of the gathering.
Here are some interviews with participants at the gathering, from various other local Indymedia collectives..
Birmingham
- application/ogg 685K
Bristol
- application/ogg 773K
Manchester_1
- application/ogg 1.2M
Homepage:
What gives?
15.02.2008 19:49
Ilyan
Works fine here..
15.02.2008 22:02
notts person
Homepage:
http://www.videolan.org/
Technical problems - more details please Ilyan?
16.02.2008 12:38
I was wondering if you could give a few more details such as what type of computer system you are running on (Linux, presumably - same here), what audio system you are using (ALSA, OSS, Jack, Arts etc?), what player application, and also what audio hardware you are using. Versions of those things too, if possible, so I can look into any bugs.
It's possible (though I think pretty unlikely) that if you have a high-end audio card, it may not like the lower sample rate of these files. I encountered something like that once on Linux, but it was a while ago and wasn't a show-stopper - I just needed a different playback program.
Maybe that your player doesn't like variable bitrate files? Or maybe something doesn't work with mono files? (I vaguely remember something like that too, a while back.)
I'm assuming all other aspects of your system relevant to this are known to be working, and that other MP3 files play OK?
The files above work fine here on Amarok and MP3Blaster (console based) using ALSA on Gentoo Linux, but I'm sure should would work just fine in VLC too. The MP3s should also work fine on almost any hardware MP3 player as far as I know.
Players:
Notts IMC Windows-based? Hardly! ;-)
A Notts IMC Audio Geek
info
17.02.2008 11:46
I can happily play the Bougainville video on a CD, see the pictures and hear the fascinating music, and the one on West Papua. Clicking on an ordinary mp3 on a CD automatically brings it up in Sound together with a fancy swirly screen display. Perhaps the system I have in Ubuntu is overdoing things.
Audio system is just what comes out through my Targa Visionary screen. I have just tried an mp3 and it has come up through Totem 2.20.0 Movie Player using GStreamer 0.10.14 and GNOME.
......thomasatvirgin.net
Ilyan