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Video Dev Days 2018

The Open Multimedia Conference that frees the cone in you!

21 - 23 September 2018, Paris

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Video Dev Days 2018 About

The VideoLAN non-profit organisation is happy to invite you to the multimedia open-source event of the summer!

For its tenth edition, people from the VideoLAN and open source multimedia communities will meet in Paris to discuss and work on the future of the open-source multimedia community

This is a technical conference.

When?

21st - 23rd of September 2018

Where?

Paris

Schedule


09:30 - 18:30

Community Bonding Day: Visit Paris!

This year we'll do a Visit Paris competition!
The VideoLAN organization will pay for whatever costs associated with the event.

19:30

Evening drinks

On Friday at 19h30, people are welcome to come and share a few good drinks, with all attendees, at the King George pub.

Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available!

08:30 - 09:00

Registration & Breakfast

09:00 - 09:25

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, VideoLAN

Welcome

09:25 - 09:40

Pascal Massimino, Google

AV1: in the end, what got in?

09:40 - 10:05

Jean-Baptiste Kempf Ronald Bultje

Dav1d: a fast new AV1 decoder

Dav1d is Dav1d.

10:05 - 10:30

Thomas Daede, Mozilla

rav1e: the best rust AV1 encoder

10:30 - 10:50

Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:20

Rostislav Pehlivanov, FFmpeg

FFv2

A technical talk about FFv2, and directions for the future.

11:30 - 12:00

Pradeep Ramachandran

x265: an update

x265: what happened last year.

12:00 - 12:30

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, VideoLAN

VLC 4.0

VLC 4.0: what was planned, what is being done, and what we will finally get!
VR!

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 18:00

Meetups

19:30 - ??:??

Community Dinner

Location: Port de Javel Haut

09:00 - 09:30

Breakfast

09:30 - 12:00

Lightning talks

  • An update about LLVM + Mingw (Martin Storsjo)
  • Rust & Multimedia (Luca Barbato)
  • TTML subtitles (Stefan Pöschel)
  • HDR & placebo (Niklas Haas)
  • FFv1 update (Dave Rice)
  • Low-latency Dash streaming (Romain Bouqueau)
  • Allwiner Cedrus driver and VPU (Paul Kocialkowski)
  • Bro Talk Translation (Derek Buitenhuis)
  • VLC multi-process (Alexandre Janni)
  • Intel and FFmpeg (Vasily Aristarkhov)
  • SubExponential Golomb Codes in AV1 (Luc Trudeau)

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 18:00

Unconferences

The actual content of the unconference track is being decided on Saturday evening. For the live schedule, check the designated page on the wiki.

20:00 - ??:??

Unofficial Dinner

Karaoke + Fishing?

Who can come?

Anyone who cares about open source multimedia technologies and development. Remember that it targets a technical crowd!

If you are representing a company caring about open-source multimedia software, we would be very interested if you could co-sponsor the event.

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COST AND SPONSORSHIP

FREE

The cost for attendance is free. Like previous years, active developers can get a full sponsorship covering travel costs. We will also provide accomodation.

Register HERE!

Accommodation

For active members of the open-source multimedia communities who registered until August 25 and got a confirmation, your hotel will be one of the following:

  • Hotel Monsieur, 62 rue des Mathurins, Paris 8
  • Mercure Paris Opéra Faubourg Montmartre, 5 Rue De Montyon, Paris 9

Sponsors


We are looking for sponsors

Google
Mozilla

Locations


Conference
Free.Fr/Iliad HQ 16, Rue de la Ville-l'Évêque 75008 Paris France
Saturday Dinner
Port de Javel Haut, Paris

Code of Conduct

This community activity is running under the VideoLAN Code of Conduct. We expect all attendees to respect our Shared Values.

Contact

The VideoLAN Dev Days are organized by the board members of the VideoLAN non-profit organization, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, Denis Charmet, Konstantin Pavlov and Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen. You can reach us at board@videolan.org.