Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

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On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 17:06:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/26/2014 9:31 AM, John Colvin wrote:
>> On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 16:14:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 5/25/2014 10:59 PM, Kai Nacke wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> the video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14 in February is now 
>>>> online.
>>>> Here is the link:
>>>> http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4401/Sunday/LDC_the_LLVMbased_D_compiler.webm
>>>>
>>>> In the same folder are also the videos of the other LLVM 
>>>> related talk.
>>>
>>> Sigh, Windows can't open that file type. Can it be posted to 
>>> youtube?
>>
>> https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ opens webm happily and is 
>> available for all
>> commonly used platforms.
>
> It's not really about me. It's about enabling the video to 
> reach as wide an audience as possible. Asking people to google 
> for what player to download, download it and install it, then 
> redownload the video, means 98% (made that up) will just sigh 
> and move on without bothering. It taking literally 5 minutes to 
> download before it can be run also does not help.
>
> Youtube has solved all these problems - why not use it?

You can view .webm directly in recent Firefox or Chrome versions 
on Windows, you an also view .webm in IE9 and above provided you 
have the right codecs installed. It's a perfectly acceptable 
format.