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Digital Tipping Point: Dolby Linux wizard John Gilbert gives us a look inside the movie industry 20
- Publication date
- 2004
- Topics
- John Gilbert, Gilbert, John, Microsoft's troubles with Windows Vista, Microsoft competing with itself, Fewer Hardware Cycles With Open Source, Old Hardware And Open Source, Microsoft And Lock-in, Microsoft As A Monopolist
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- DTP Crew
This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. Thanks to Thomas King, a writer for Linux.com and LXer, for doing the rough editing for this series of interview segments!
In this series of 21 interview segments, Dolby computer wiz John Gilbert talks about where Linux has penetrated the movie industry. And if anyone should know, it is this guy. John makes his living by using Unix and Linux to help make the magic of Dolby movie sounds and deliver those sounds to audiences. John makes a convincing case that Linux has found a home in the movie industry, and plans to continue living there for the foreseeable future. And this interview, shot in 2004, has certainly been born out in many respects by the passage of time as seen now in 2008.
In segment 20 (Tape 155~002), John says that Linux will run on very old hardware, such as a 386. He says that it's not possible in 2004 to build a computer that will run Windows Longhorn (which became Windows Vista). Microsoft is also competing against themselves. They sold Microsoft Office 2000 as doing everything you will need, and so they are having some problems selling Microsoft Office 2003. And OpenOffice.org is giving them some competition. And Microsoft is getting more draconian, charging subscriptions over and over again for the right to use the same software. There is really nothing that Microsoft's products do that Free Open Source Software can't do. The average person will need to care about Linux, because you can already (in 2004) buy a Linux machine from Wal-Mart, a Lindows machine [Lindows became Linspire and was bought out by Xandros in 2008]. He says that Microsoft Longhorn (Vista) will have trouble running old software, but Linux will run this old software. Microsoft abandoned its legacy software. He switches topic and told a story about a robot that ran on a Mac. They didn't want to keep the Mac running, so they emulated the Mac software. He continues his story in the next segment.
In segment 21 (Tape 155~003), John continues telling his story from segment 20. He says that they were able to keep that robotic function running by using Free Open Source Software to emulate the Mac software, and they did it on a PC. He switches topic, and talks about the threat of Microsoft lockdown. He says that there is a threat of lockdown of multimedia formats. There have been tricks to get the media to run on Linux, but they are just tricks, and not really good solutions. There are Free standards that the Free Open Source Software community have come up with to run multimedia. He thought that there might be legal battles in the next 3 to 5 years to deal with the problems that these locked down media formats are bringing up. [Fortunately, so far, his prediction has not been really all that true, at least not as far as multimedia and GNU-Linux is concerned, in the 4 years since this interview].
This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor Finnish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page.
All of John Gilbert's interview segments can be found here:
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 01)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 02)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 03)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_004.ogg (segment 04)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_005.ogg (segment 05)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_006.ogg (segment 06)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_007.ogg (segment 07)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_008.ogg (segment 08)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_009.ogg (segment 09)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 10)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 11)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 12)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_004.ogg (segment 13)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_005.ogg (segment 14)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_006.ogg (segment 15)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_007.ogg (segment 16)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_008.ogg (segment 17)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_009.ogg (segment 18)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 19)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 20)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 21)
If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.
The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com.
Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_155
and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 002, John Gilbert
You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Thanks for viewing our video!
In this series of 21 interview segments, Dolby computer wiz John Gilbert talks about where Linux has penetrated the movie industry. And if anyone should know, it is this guy. John makes his living by using Unix and Linux to help make the magic of Dolby movie sounds and deliver those sounds to audiences. John makes a convincing case that Linux has found a home in the movie industry, and plans to continue living there for the foreseeable future. And this interview, shot in 2004, has certainly been born out in many respects by the passage of time as seen now in 2008.
In segment 20 (Tape 155~002), John says that Linux will run on very old hardware, such as a 386. He says that it's not possible in 2004 to build a computer that will run Windows Longhorn (which became Windows Vista). Microsoft is also competing against themselves. They sold Microsoft Office 2000 as doing everything you will need, and so they are having some problems selling Microsoft Office 2003. And OpenOffice.org is giving them some competition. And Microsoft is getting more draconian, charging subscriptions over and over again for the right to use the same software. There is really nothing that Microsoft's products do that Free Open Source Software can't do. The average person will need to care about Linux, because you can already (in 2004) buy a Linux machine from Wal-Mart, a Lindows machine [Lindows became Linspire and was bought out by Xandros in 2008]. He says that Microsoft Longhorn (Vista) will have trouble running old software, but Linux will run this old software. Microsoft abandoned its legacy software. He switches topic and told a story about a robot that ran on a Mac. They didn't want to keep the Mac running, so they emulated the Mac software. He continues his story in the next segment.
In segment 21 (Tape 155~003), John continues telling his story from segment 20. He says that they were able to keep that robotic function running by using Free Open Source Software to emulate the Mac software, and they did it on a PC. He switches topic, and talks about the threat of Microsoft lockdown. He says that there is a threat of lockdown of multimedia formats. There have been tricks to get the media to run on Linux, but they are just tricks, and not really good solutions. There are Free standards that the Free Open Source Software community have come up with to run multimedia. He thought that there might be legal battles in the next 3 to 5 years to deal with the problems that these locked down media formats are bringing up. [Fortunately, so far, his prediction has not been really all that true, at least not as far as multimedia and GNU-Linux is concerned, in the 4 years since this interview].
This footage is our raw rough-cut footage. It lacks transitions, music, special effectsor Finnish rendering. It is our "source code". Please feel free to rip, mix and burn this footage consistent with our Creative Commons license as disclosed on this page.
All of John Gilbert's interview segments can be found here:
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 01)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 02)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 03)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_004.ogg (segment 04)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_005.ogg (segment 05)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_006.ogg (segment 06)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_007.ogg (segment 07)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_008.ogg (segment 08)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv153_sf_01_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_009.ogg (segment 09)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 10)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 11)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 12)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_004.ogg (segment 13)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_005.ogg (segment 14)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_006.ogg (segment 15)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_007.ogg (segment 16)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_008.ogg (segment 17)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv154_sf_02_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_009.ogg (segment 18)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_001.ogg (segment 19)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_002.ogg (segment 20)
http://www.archive.org/details/e-dv155_sf_03_john_gilbert_dolby_labs_nix_admin_003.ogg (segment 21)
If you like this segment, please consider typing up a summary for it and emailing that summary to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com. Your work will be credited and posted on this page.
The DTP will be many, many films created by the global open source video community about how open source is changing their lives. We, the DTP crew, are submitting this footage for anyone to rip, mix, and burn under the Creative Commons Attribute - ShareAlike license. We welcome edits, transcriptions, graphics, music, and animation contributions to the film. Please send a link for any contributions to Christian Einfeldt at einfeldt@gmail.com.
Or, if you would like to contribute by directly transcribing this particular video segment, you can do so by going here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Tape_155
and typing the audio as you hear it into the wiki. Please be sure to add the transcription for this segment under: Segment 002, John Gilbert
You can find other ways to contribute by going to our wiki front page here:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Thanks for viewing our video!
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For credits for this segment and all segments for the DTP main film, please go to this website:
http://digitaltippingpoint.com/?q=node/12
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- Christian Einfeldt, einfeldt at g mail dot com
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- 2008-11-16 08:29:11
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