Make It Small: The Magic of Audio and Video Compression July 7, 2010

Making multimedia files as small as possible is possible by taking advantage of your brain's limitations. You've seen optical illusions, but did you know there are also many aural illusions? The same principles that trick you into seeing and hearing things allow clever algorithms to make MP3s and video files tiny without altering their quality much.

Local web specialist Jack Moffitt will discuss these illusions, the techniques they enable, and why if something looks or sounds good, it is good.

*Presentation to be followed by socializing at One Up for those folks who want to stick around.*

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ABOUT OUR PRESENTER
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Jack Moffitt is a hacker and entrepreneur based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has founded several startups built on XMPP technology including Collecta, a real-time search engine for the web, and Chesspark, a real-time, multi-user gaming platform.

Previously he created the Icecast Streaming Media Server, spent a lot of time developing and managing the Ogg Vorbis project, and helping create and run the Xiph.org Foundation. All these efforts exist to create a common, royalty-free, and open standard for multimedia on the Internet.

He is passionate about Free Software and Open Source, technology, music, and photography.

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