As usual, the EBU organized an Open Source Meet-up at IBC. The Meet-up featured a series of 5 minutes lightning talks on open source projects and use cases from the broadcast domain:
- Introduction - Peter MacAvock (EBU)
- Professional Media libraries for MXF, NMOS and SDI - Richard Cartwright (StreamPunk Media)
- Live Subtitling Toolkit - Nigel Megitt (BBC)
- MediaInfo, a multimedia files metadata extractor - Jérôme Martinez (MediaArea)
- NodeJS, Jquery, Bash scripts and FFMPEG - Emmanuel Aldeguer (TraceTV)
- The Turing codec: an open source HEVC encoder - Saverio Blasi (BBC)
- Delivery of VR/360 videos using tiles with MPEG-DASH - Romain Bouqueau (GPAC Licensing)
- P4 for media - Thomas Edwards (FOX)
- Automatic News Chopper - François Legrand (CBC)
- Media4DPlayer; an accessible HTML5 multi-DASH player - Matthieu Parmentier (FranceTV)
- Photon - Open Source IMF Verification - Brian Kenworthy (Netflix)
- CasparCG at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 - Jonas Hummelstrand (SuperFly.tv)
- Implementing uncompressed over IP in software and the pitfalls - Kieran Kunhya (Open Broadcast Systems)
- Awesome Broadcasting - Michael Barroco (EBU)
To learn more about the EBU's Open Source activities, contact: Marcello Lombardo (EBU).