Lib-Ray: Non-DRM Open-Standards HD Video Format
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A free software fixed media format for HD video, based on open standards, with metadata and localization but no DRM restrictions
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Funded: $21,421 of $19,000
Dates: May 4th -> Jun 3rd (31 days)
Project By: Terry Hancock
Backers: 467
Average Pledge Per Backer: $46
Funded: $21,421 of $19,000
Dates: May 4th -> Jun 3rd (31 days)
Project By: Terry Hancock
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Latest News
Progress: Lib-Ray Player
February 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Progress for this week on the Lib-Ray Player software: Continued writing doctest unit tests in model.py Session, Volume, Archive tests passing Volume now recognizes and reads test volume, with necessary paths and metadata for playback Archive can... (Read More)
Update for 2014
January 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Hello, This is Rosalyn Hunter, co-producer of the Lib-Ray project with an update. This last December, the Lib-Ray facility suffered a fire that damaged some equipment and set back our production. Luckily, our prototype machine and our main computer... (Read More)
Happy Halloween (and stuff...)
October 31st - via: kickstarter.com
It's well past time for another update, and of course, the project is well into overtime at this point. I comfort myself that, of the 31 Kickstarters I've backed myself, most are running this late or later, but truthfully I'm still pretty bugged by... (Read More)
Busy couple of weeks...
June 4th - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)
Template System (Lib-Ray Wizard)
May 1st - via: kickstarter.com
Lib-Ray Template SystemThe Lib-Ray authoring wizard will include generation of menus from theme templates. I've been working the last couple of days on the internal side of this. The following is of interest to people considering writing their own... (Read More)
"Tears of Steel", Wizard Software, and More Updates
April 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Just a quick update on a lot of little points... First of all, I can announce a small enhancement: the Blender Open Movie Collection release definitely will include Tears of Steel since all of the necessary files for mastering it have been released... (Read More)
Experimenting and Coding: Lib-Ray Player
January 30th - via: kickstarter.com
Last week I went through a lot of experimental work on the menu system. I'm currently coding a draft of the player code based on that. "lrdetect.py"Basically, there will be two scripts here: The first is just a short script to be run from udev (or... (Read More)
Lib-Ray Status and Immediate Plans
January 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello all!I've gotten more than a few concerned queries about how Lib-Ray is going, because there isn't a lot to show for it right now. I completely understand the concern. However, I'm very much planning to deliver on or before the July 2013... (Read More)
Milestone - Video Playback with Subtitles from Python
November 30th - via: kickstarter.com
For the last week or so I've been putting in some serious work on Lib-Ray in hopes of having a nice milestone to report. A lot of that was trying to get the ALSA driver for the Realtex sound system on the HTPC test machine to work, which is kind of... (Read More)
Hardware construction and sourcing
October 19th - via: kickstarter.com
A quick update:I am currently building the first of what will probably be three test HTPC machines for tryng out Lib-Ray. This one is an Intel SandyBridge-based HTPC, which should be good for basic testing. The second will probably be an AMD... (Read More)
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