The Cambridge Union Society: Video Recording, Thursday, 21 January 2010
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Title: This House Believes the British Press Has Too Much Freedom
Event Type: Debate
Proposition Speakers: Keith Schilling, James Price QC, Max Moseley
Opposition Speakers: Tom Bower, David Leigh, Alex Thomson
Speaker information: Keith Schilling is the senior partner and co-founder of Schillings. James Price QC is a top media silk. Max Moseley is a former President of the FIA and tabloid victim. Tom Bower is an unauthorised biographer and investigative reporter. David Leigh is Investigations Editor at 'The Guardian'. Alex Thomson is Chief Correspondent, Channel 4 News.
President: Jonathan Laurence
Results: Ayes, to the right: 96 votes. Noes, to the left: 303 votes. There were 116 abstentions.
The motion was defeated by a margin of 207 votes
Runtime: 01:21:27
Recorded at: The Cambridge Union Society, on Thursday, 21 January 2010, by Richard Neill.

Copyright, The Cambridge Union Society, 2010
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Files
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The following files are included:

* cus_2010-01-21_debate_press-freedom_archive_mpeg4-768x576-2000k-mp3-48000-192k.avi
This is the main, archival quality video (1272 MB).

* cus_2010-01-21_debate_press-freedom_stream_mpeg4-640x480-1000k-mp3-48000-128k.avi
Slightly reduced quality, and smaller file-size for general watching. (658 MB).

* cus_2010-01-21_debate_press-freedom_stream_mpeg4-320x240-300k-mp3-44100-64k.avi
This is designed for ADSL-connections, and is similar quality to YouTube. (217 MB).

* cus_2010-01-21_debate_press-freedom_stream_mpeg4-320x240x15fps-60k-mp3-22050-24k.avi
This is designed for low-bandwidth connections (or small portable devices). Reduced quality. (54 MB).

* cus_2010-01-21_debate_press-freedom_stream_vorbis-32000-32k.ogg
This contains just the audio, ideal as a podcast. (20 MB).

The original aspect-ratio is 4:3 at 720x576 pixels, i.e. the standard PAL defaults.
Playback software should automatically scale it to 768x576 (because TV-camera pixels aren't square, but LCD pixels are).
Filenames contain information about the codecs, in the pattern: video{codec-resolution-bitrate}-audio{codec-samplerate-bitrate}
The video is already de-interlaced.

Download Location
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* The Cambridge Union Society http://www.cus.org/debate_archive/cus_2010-01-21_debate_press-freedom
* The Internet Archive mirror http://www.archive.org/details/cus_2010-01-21_debate_press-freedom

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Playback
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* VideoLAN http://www.videolan.org/
* MPlayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

Both of these are Free Software, work excellently, and are cross-platform (Linux, Macintosh, Windows).
[Unfortunately, Windows Media Player is notoriously incompatible with most file-formats, and we cannot recommend it.]

Credits
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The video-generation script was written by Richard Neill, and is Free Software, released under the GNU GPL v3.
It can be downloaded from http://richardneill.org/source
Particular thanks are due to FFMPEG for handling most of the format-conversion work: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/