Alpha Status Report #5 (Feb 7 to Feb 19 of 2010)

[Fabricio Zuardi]

Here are the progress we made over the past 2 weeks:

• More clips! The repository now has 2700 totally free clips!
• Work to offer Dirac versions for all new clips finished. 450 clips already have their Dirac versions.
• Transcoding jobs and contributors UI updated to accept and work for both 29.97fps and 23.976fps footage
• check out the howto explaining how we do our AVCHD transcoding using free tools
• we've started the uploading of clips from our second contributor.
• Improved the quality of the generated thumbnails for new added clips, we might convert the old ones during next week too.
• Other weblogs and people have posted about the project, special thanks to the folks at Open Video Alliance, that made a nice blog post about the free videos repository.
• And of course bug fixes.

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Fabricio