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		<title>Carne di porco, ovvero incontro con RaiNet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ieri ho partecipato a un incontro dal titolo Convergiamo organizzato da RaiNet. Sorvolo sugli inutili dibattiti sulla crossmedialità e altre snobistiche fantasticherie.
Il responsabile tecnico RaiNet ha introdotto di sua iniziativa il problema Silverlight e &#8220;hacker&#8221;. Vi posso assicurare dal tono e dalle espressioni usate che è un tema &#8220;caldo&#8221;. Il reponsabile tecnico ha ammesso che [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ieri ho partecipato a un incontro dal titolo <em>Convergiamo</em> organizzato da RaiNet. Sorvolo sugli inutili dibattiti sulla crossmedialità e altre snobistiche fantasticherie.</p>
<p>Il responsabile tecnico RaiNet ha introdotto di sua iniziativa il problema Silverlight e &#8220;hacker&#8221;. Vi posso assicurare dal tono e dalle espressioni usate che è un tema &#8220;caldo&#8221;. Il reponsabile tecnico ha ammesso che le misure di protezione sono continuamente &#8220;bucate&#8221; da un gruppo di &#8220;hacker che fanno carne di porco dei contenuti RAI&#8221;. Proprio così. A quel punto ho alzato la mano e ho detto: &#8220;Buonasera, sono uno di quelli che fanno carne di porco&#8230;&#8221; e la sala si è fatta una bella risata! C&#8217;è anche una <a href="http://friendfeed.com/marcomassarotto/8be7ee17/buonasera-io-sono-uno-di-quelli-che-rende">testimonianza</a> con qualche commento. Mi sono brevemente opposto alla connotazione negativa che sembrava insinuare chissà quali loschi fini dicendo che noi &#8220;craccatori&#8221; siamo solo utenti normali e quelli che vogliono vedere le dirette sul VLC sono una fetta di comunissimi utenti. Ho riassunto rapidissimamente le ragioni per cui c&#8217;è un interesse diffuso a vedere le dirette fuori da rai.tv:</p>
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<li>Silverlight non si può installare su computer un po&#8217; vecchi. Ad es. AMD Athlon</li>
<li>Consuma più CPU, quindi scarica molto più in fretta la batteria di un portatile</li>
<li>La qualità video è inferiore</li>
<li>Le dirette non sono fruibili su device come smartphone e mediacenter.</li>
<li>Problemi diffusi di installazione e funzionamento si Silverlight</li>
<li>Non ho fatto in tempo a dire: Moonlight funziona solo su Firefox e non su altri browser, ma non so quanto sarebbe stato capito: per i mediaroli presenti in sala usare il Mac è ancora di moda.</li>
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<p>RaiNet giustifica i continui tentativi di rendere inaccessibili le dirette al di fuori di rai.tv sostenendo che &#8220;non hanno i diritti&#8221;. Cioè che i diritti che acquisiscono per alcuni dei contenuti trasmessi sono limitati al sito rai.tv. Un esempio sono state le ultime Olimpiadi invernali per le quali hanno corso, a quanto hanno detto, il rischio di dover sospendere gli stream. Inoltre sostengono di non essere nella posizione di ottenere questo diritto.</p>
<p>Avrei voluto proporre una nuova strategia oltre alle critiche, ma questa notizia sui problemi di diritti e la tendenza a non farmi più intervenire mi ha bloccato. La strategia è semplice.</p>
<ul>
<li>Rinunciare a pubblicità aggiuntiva rispetto a quella già presente in tv.</li>
<li>Aprire l&#8217;accesso alle dirette e ai contenuti on-demand creando un API documentata e pubblica in modo da rendere possibile a terze parti sviluppare software integrando i contenuti RAI su qualunque sistema operativo e device.</li>
<li>Fare reportistica non in base alle pageview e accessi unici del sito. Ma in base agli accessi agli stream.</li>
<li>In questo modo possono aggiungere valore alla pubblicità che già raccolgono e migrare veramente la RAI su internet perché l&#8217;epoca della TV sta finendo.</li>
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<p>Ma insomma, questo presuppone che abbiano i diritti per farlo.</p>
<p>In chiusura ho potuto parlare a tu per tu con il responsabile tecnico. Mi ha anticipato che in vista delle prossime Paralimpiadi, per evitare rischi, useranno il DRM di Windows Media. Questo significa che Linux (e tutto ciò che non è Windows e Mac) sarà escluso dalle dirette. Gli ho anticipato che questo cambiamento non sarà accolto benissimo&#8230;</p>
<p>Ho fatto in tempo anche a raccontargli la <a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/dirette-raitv-senza-silverlight-o-moonlight#comment-1729">storia di Matthew</a> che mi ha colpito e spero abbia colpito anche lui. Alla fine, leggermente disgustato da alcuni sproloqui di mediaroli di mezz&#8217;età, ho preso il vespone e sono tornato a casa.</p>
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		<title>Minitube is in Ubuntu repositories</title>
		<link>http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-is-in-ubuntu-repositories</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the efforts of Christian Mangold, Minitube has been packaged and uploaded into Ubuntu&#8217;s universe repository for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release. This means that starting from April 2010 Ubuntu users will be able to install it in a few clicks using the Ubuntu Software Center application.
This is such a great news! I tried [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to the efforts of Christian Mangold, Minitube has been packaged and uploaded into Ubuntu&#8217;s <code>universe</code> repository for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release. This means that starting from April 2010 Ubuntu users will be able to install it in a few clicks using the Ubuntu Software Center application.</p>
<p>This is such a great news! I tried but I really cannot convey what I feel in English words, so I&#8217;ll try with an image. Here&#8217;s a cheesy picture of me in 2007 after reaching Sardinia&#8217;s highest peak, proudly wearing a self-made Kubuntu shirt! <img src='http://flavio.tordini.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><img src="http://flavio.tordini.org/files/2010/01/kubuntu-sardinia.jpg" alt="" title="" width="600" height="800" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-500" /></p>
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		<title>Minitube 0.9 is out today</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Minitube developer's log]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just released Minitube 0.9 with some minor enhancements and bug fixes. It is not a mind-blowing release, but still adds what I consider the most important feature: polish. I somewhat rushed the release in the hope that Christian, an Ubuntu packager, manages to get Minitube into Lucid Lynx. So everybody cross your fingers!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just released <a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube">Minitube 0.9</a> with some minor enhancements and bug fixes. It is not a mind-blowing release, but still adds what I consider the most important feature: polish. I somewhat rushed the release in the hope that Christian, an Ubuntu packager, manages to get Minitube into Lucid Lynx. So everybody cross your fingers!</p>
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		<title>Minitube and the evil VEVO</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A user notified me about some music videos not playing in Minitube. After a quick search I noticed they all come from YouTube users ending in *VEVO. Here&#8217;s an explanation of what this evil VEVO thing actually is.
These videos are streamed using the RTMP Adobe proprietary protocol, with the obvious aim to make them harder [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A user notified me about some music videos not playing in Minitube. After a quick search I noticed they all come from YouTube users ending in *VEVO. Here&#8217;s an explanation of what this evil <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/youtube-cant-sa/">VEVO</a> thing actually is.</p>
<p>These videos are streamed using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Messaging_Protocol">RTMP</a> Adobe proprietary protocol, with the obvious aim to make them harder to save and stream outside of their Flash thing. This means that Minitube won&#8217;t be able play them until its multimedia engines implement this protocol. The Free Software community is working on <a href="http://osflash.org/documentation/rtmp">reverse engineering</a> and implementing the protocol, <a href="http://lkcl.net/rtmp/">withstanding</a> <a href="http://linuxcentre.net/adobe-has-issued-a-dmca-removal-request-for-rtmpdump">legal threats</a> from Adobe. It will take time before working code lands in GStreamer or Xine. On the Mac, Quicktime may never be able to handle RTMP, maybe requiring a switch to another Phonon backend (VLC).</p>
<p>So this is the current state of VEVO things as I understand them. If I&#8217;m missing something please let me know or if you feel you can help to get those video play in Minitube, please do.</p>
<p>UPDATE 2010-01-11: It looks like VEVO videos now correctly play in Minitube. Great!</p>
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		<title>Windows adventures</title>
		<link>http://flavio.tordini.org/windows-adventures</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time Stefan Brück built Minitube with Visual C++ and the DirectShow Phonon backend. Alas the DirectShow backend had problems streaming YouTube videos. Then came Marco di Antonio and built Minitube with the Mplayer backend, he did a great work but mplayer was incredibly unstable and crashed all the time. Weeks passed and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once upon a time Stefan Brück built Minitube with Visual C++ and the DirectShow Phonon backend. Alas the DirectShow backend had problems streaming YouTube videos. Then came Marco di Antonio and built Minitube with the Mplayer backend, he did a great work but mplayer was incredibly unstable and crashed all the time. Weeks passed and still no Minitube for Windows.</p>
<p>I spent the last few nights setting up a virtualized Windows XP and trying to finally get a working Minitube on Windows. First of all, Windows sucks, as you may already know. By contrast Qt 4.6 is so awesome that it can build cleanly with Mingw, the Windows GCC port, and this gave me hope. The DirectShow Phonon Backend used to require Visual C++, fortunately this is no longer the case. So it is very easy to have Minitube use DirectShow. It has problems with YouTube video streams. Maybe they can be worked around but, even if that was the case, users would have to install codecs separately. I tried to install FFDShow, ffmpeg ported as DirectShow codecs, but miserably failed both on XP and Vista. I can barely imagine what would happen if I release Minitube that way. Thousands of angry Windows users, with zero respect and knowledge of what Free Software is, would flood with the comments, emails and negative reviews.</p>
<p>Plan B: the Phonon VLC Backend. Lucky enough KDE people are actively working on a VLC backend for Phonon. I spent a few days trying to compile it using their CMake-based build system. I may be an idiot, a Windows noob or  a KDE noob or the three together, but I couldn&#8217;t build that DLL. So I decided to replace the build system altogether and use QMake. Ten minutes and I had my phonon_vlc.dll.</p>
<p>So does this mean Minitube for Windows is ready? No way. From what I can understand VLC has problems decoding the video stream, especially the AAC audio. It stops playing the video, not even randomly but always in the same place. Sometimes it recovers, sometimes it skips to the next video. But in general VLC feels like the more solid solution. I&#8217;ll try to get in touch with VLC people and get help.</p>
<p>To be continued&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Minitube 0.8.1 fixes HD mode</title>
		<link>http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-0-8-1-fixes-hd-mode</link>
		<comments>http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-0-8-1-fixes-hd-mode#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately a critical bug popped up in the 0.8 release. When HD mode is enabled, non-HD videos fail to play. A &#8220;Network error&#8221; is reported and Minitube skips to the next video. It&#8217;s not 100% clear to me what triggered the bug, anyway it should be fixed in 0.8.1.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately a critical bug popped up in the 0.8 release. When HD mode is enabled, non-HD videos fail to play. A &#8220;Network error&#8221; is reported and <a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube">Minitube</a> skips to the next video. It&#8217;s not 100% clear to me what triggered the bug, anyway it should be fixed in 0.8.1.</p>
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		<title>Minitube 0.8 has HD video playback</title>
		<link>http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-0-8-has-hd-video-playback</link>
		<comments>http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-0-8-has-hd-video-playback#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ High Definition video is coming to a Minitube near you! As if it wasn&#8217;t enough, version 0.8 also:

 Remembers volume level and mute status across sessions.
 Includes new Croatian, Latvian, Galician, Hungarian and French translations.
 Removes cheesy icons in menus on Linux.

Thanks to Eduardo Suarez-Santana, Srecko Belaic, Inga Muste, Miguel Anxo Bouzada, Krisztián Horváth [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube"><img src="http://flavio.tordini.org/files/2009/11/minitube-hd.png" alt="Minitube HD" title="Minitube HD" width="300" height="200" class="alignright size-full wp-image-452" /></a> High Definition video is coming to a <a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube">Minitube</a> near you! As if it wasn&#8217;t enough, version 0.8 also:</p>
<ul>
<li> Remembers volume level and mute status across sessions.</li>
<li> Includes new Croatian, Latvian, Galician, Hungarian and French translations.</li>
<li> Removes cheesy icons in menus on Linux.</li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks to Eduardo Suarez-Santana, Srecko Belaic, Inga Muste, Miguel Anxo Bouzada, Krisztián Horváth and Guillaume Betous for contributing to this release!</p>
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		<title>Minitube can seek videos on Ubuntu 9.10!</title>
		<link>http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-can-seek-videos-on-ubuntu-9-10</link>
		<comments>http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-can-seek-videos-on-ubuntu-9-10#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I just upgraded my home fanless PC to the Karmic Koala. After reinstalling phonon-backend-gstreamer, that was left out by the update process, I was able to run Minitube 0.7 without problems. I was shocked when I found that video seeking now works. Not only it is working, but it can seek beyond the buffered [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://flavio.tordini.org/files/2009/10/minitube-seek.png" alt="Minitube can seek!" title="Minitube can seek!" width="300" height="200" class="alignright size-full wp-image-412" /> I just upgraded my home fanless PC to the Karmic Koala. After reinstalling <code>phonon-backend-gstreamer</code>, that was left out by the update process, I was able to run Minitube 0.7 without problems. I was shocked when I found that video seeking now works. Not only it is working, but it can seek beyond the buffered part of the video. This means that you can immediately seek to the end of a video. This is just awesome.</p>
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		<title>Minitube 0.7</title>
		<link>http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube-0-7</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new version of Minitube is out, sporting minor fixes and an important enhancement. Many users will have noticed the dreaded &#8220;Embedding disabled by request&#8221; message. It happens when a YouTube user explicitly disables &#8220;embedding&#8221; of his/her video on webpages. Often these are videos from major labels and other evil entities. Now Minitube can happily [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new version of <a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube">Minitube</a> is out, sporting minor fixes and an important enhancement. Many users will have noticed the dreaded &#8220;Embedding disabled by request&#8221; message. It happens when a YouTube user explicitly disables &#8220;embedding&#8221; of his/her video on webpages. Often these are videos from major labels and other evil entities. Now Minitube can happily play these too. Enjoy.</p>
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		<title>Yet another music player</title>
		<link>http://flavio.tordini.org/yet-another-music-player</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flavio</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ I&#8217;m starting a new ambitious Free Software project. Yes, that&#8217;s it, Yet Another Music Player™. I&#8217;ve got a few innovative UI concepts in mind that I hope will justify the incredible duplication of effort already present in this area. But the real reason I&#8217;m doing this is that my living room lacks a decent [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-370" title="Minitunes artists view" src="http://flavio.tordini.org/files/2009/10/minitunes-artists.png" alt="Minitunes artists view" width="300" height="225" /> I&#8217;m starting a new ambitious Free Software project. Yes, that&#8217;s it, Yet Another Music Player™. I&#8217;ve got a few innovative UI concepts in mind that I hope will justify the incredible duplication of effort already present in this area. But the real reason I&#8217;m doing this is that <strong>my</strong> living room lacks a decent music player. You read it right. The gazillion Linux players around are all unusable, for a reason or another. I used to be an enthusiastic Amarok 1.x user a few years ago, then came KDE4 and Amarok2. I guess all good things must come to an end&#8230; Mac people are in an even <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/09/somebody-has-to-say-it-its-time-for-itunes-lite/">worse position</a>.</p>
<p>After the positive <a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube">Minitube</a> experience and since the new player will inherit part of its codebase, I&#8217;d like to call the new player <em>Minitunes</em> (hope I don&#8217;t get sued because of the last 5 letters). In the picture, a detail of the Collection view, showing the artists in my collection&#8230; Get ready for the brand new iTunes killer. No less. -.-</p>
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