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GNU Audio and Video

[A gnu listening to music]

Here you can watch video or listen to audio recordings of speeches and other events related to the GNU Project. Many of these recordings are made by volunteers who attend our events, and we thank everyone for sending them in.

Speeches and interviews that are intended for the general public are listed in the category GNU Philosophy and History. Some of them are in Spanish or French, and a few of the recordings have been transcribed and/or subtitled. The transcriptions are published in the Philosophy section.

Beside speeches and interviews, GNU Philosophy and History lists other interesting audio and video material that a selection by type (at the top of the list) will help you discover.

Resources dealing with more technical subjects are listed separately. For example,

Audio and video techniques

Modern web browsers, such as GNU Icecat 3.5 or later can play these files natively, but more information for everyone is available at PlayOgg, a campaign of the Free Software Foundation.

Recordings are typically made using the Theora (video) and Vorbis (audio) codecs in the Ogg container, but some videos are in the WebM format instead. Their audio tracks are usually encoded in Vorbis, but occasionally in Opus, a low-delay format, well suited for real-time communication.

The documentation page provides some basic information on

All recordings are made available for verbatim copying and distribution, and many are also available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 license or later versions.

Feedback

If you find a problem with the audio-video server or have a speech recording to contribute, please report to Make a task for maintainers of the project or fill a support request.

Come visit the Audio-Video project page on Savannah.

Add yourself to the low traffic audio-video mailing list.