DVDs

The video recordings of Debconf5 are available not only as individual files but also as video DVDs that can be played in ordinary DVD players as well as in computers with suitable hardware and software. They include menus and chapter marks for two-part sessions.

Getting the discs

There are 3 ways to get these DVDs:

Order by mail

Use this order form to buy boxed discs.

Download ISO images

Warning: Mozilla cannot download files larger than 2GB, except on 64-bit systems; neither can wget. lftp, Konqueror and cURL should work.

Download the disc images with PAL/SECAM video or with NTSC video and burn them yourself. You can also download and print the box cover design.

Build from sources

If you have a lot of CPU time and disk space to spare, and want to customise the DVDs, you can do so using the debconf5-dvd build files. However, the official images are built from high-bit-rate sources that are not available for download. You can use either those or the downloadable MPEG-1 files.

PAL, SECAM or NTSC?

Different parts of the world use different video standards. If you want to view the DVDs on a TV, you must choose ones that are compatible with the standard it uses. This map shows which standards are used in which countries. However, if you only intend to play the DVDs on computers, this is not an issue, and I would recommend you choose the PAL/SECAM discs because they have slightly higher resolution and can use MPEG layer 2 audio which is better than Dolby Digital (AC3) at low bit rates.

Credits

These are included in the DVD menus but won't be shown by some software players.

Conference organisers

• Jesus Climent
• Fabian Fagerholm
• Jimmy Kaplowitz
• Tero Kuusela
• Holger Levsen
• Margarita Manterola
• Jaakko Niemi
• Martin-Éric Racine
• Andreas Schuldei
• Henning Sprang
• Arto Teräs
• Marcela Tiznado
• Riku Voipio
• Lars Wirzenius
• Gunnar Wolf
• Aschwin van der Woude
• and many more volunteers

Video team

• Tore S. Bekkedal
• Kalle Böes
• Javier Candeira
• Chris Halls
• Erik Johansson
• Noel Köthe
• Martin Langhoff
• Holger Levsen
• John Lightsey
• Andrew McMillan
• Herman Robak
• Peter de Schrijver
• Henning Sprang

Logo and banner

• Henri Melaanvuo

Photos

• Ben Hutchings
• Arto Teräs

DVD authoring and cover design

• Ben Hutchings

Sponsors

• Hewlett-Packard
• Intel
• Nokia
• IBM
• Linux Magazine
• Linux Aktivaattori
• Movial
• SLX Debian Labs
• Helsinki University of Technology
• Linspire
• NetApp
• VA Linux Systems Japan
• Hostway
• O'Reilly
• MySQL
• Progeny
• Damicon
• Xandros
• Univention
• Linux Information Systems
• Centre for Open Source Software
• Ubuntu
• Ropecon
• Credativ

Errata

• Audio/video synchronisation was poor in some of the Debian Day and extra videos. This is fixed in version 1.1.
• In version 1.0 the left audio channel is silent in sessions where the source only has one audio channel. This error was introduced in the switch from MPEG-1 to AVI sources, and is fixed in version 1.1.
• In a few of the sessions, most noticeably Enrico Zini's "Zen and the Art of Free Software", both audio and video tracks skip several times near the beginning of the session. This is due to an error in copying from the digital video camera to hard disk and is not a fault in the DVD recording. Unfortunately the missing periods are not recoverable. In version 1.1 the first few seconds of "Zen and the Art of Free Software" were cut, since the talk is more coherent without them.
• In the DebCamp videos from 3rd and 4th of July, glitches appear briefly in some players. The cause of this has not yet been determined and so it has not been fixed.