aviadr1
13th January 2013, 17:41
Dear multimedia technology experts and users,
I would like to ask for your help and support for the Broadcast & Media technologies (http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/36807/broadcast-and-media-technologies) Q&A site on stackexchange.
how
this should take only a few minutes, as you can register with openid with gmail, facebook or yahoo id.
all you have to do is login, press the "follow" button, and then upvote some interesting questions.
why
right now the multimedia community has lots of niche mailing lists and message boards.
this makes the subject matter harder to learn, and harder to find good existing answers to common questions.
worse still, even on very niche MLs such as libav usage there are too few people answering questions, which may be frustrating for a user.
why am I suggesting yet another Q&A site as the answer to this problem?
well, stackoverflow has a reputation for being the best programming-related Q&A site in the world, and stackexchange is the best Q&A site platform.
there are already 80 followers for the media and broadcast technologies proposal, with a few more followers, and enough questions upvoted to 10 we could build a home for multimedia Q&A on the web.
what
here are example questions that need your upvote:
Why is MPEG-4 a good thing in comparison to MPEG-2?
How to embed metadata (or custom tables) with MPEG2 transport stream (MPEG-TS)?
What open/source free tools can generate movies with a Fragmented MP4 container?
How do I reorder MPEG2 frames from coded to presentation order?
How open is this proposal to streaming media and encoding questions?
Discussion:
if you have any questions about the proposal, want to suggest pet questions or discussion topics, the best place to do so is in the proposal itself.
I would like to ask for your help and support for the Broadcast & Media technologies (http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/36807/broadcast-and-media-technologies) Q&A site on stackexchange.
how
this should take only a few minutes, as you can register with openid with gmail, facebook or yahoo id.
all you have to do is login, press the "follow" button, and then upvote some interesting questions.
why
right now the multimedia community has lots of niche mailing lists and message boards.
this makes the subject matter harder to learn, and harder to find good existing answers to common questions.
worse still, even on very niche MLs such as libav usage there are too few people answering questions, which may be frustrating for a user.
why am I suggesting yet another Q&A site as the answer to this problem?
well, stackoverflow has a reputation for being the best programming-related Q&A site in the world, and stackexchange is the best Q&A site platform.
there are already 80 followers for the media and broadcast technologies proposal, with a few more followers, and enough questions upvoted to 10 we could build a home for multimedia Q&A on the web.
what
here are example questions that need your upvote:
Why is MPEG-4 a good thing in comparison to MPEG-2?
How to embed metadata (or custom tables) with MPEG2 transport stream (MPEG-TS)?
What open/source free tools can generate movies with a Fragmented MP4 container?
How do I reorder MPEG2 frames from coded to presentation order?
How open is this proposal to streaming media and encoding questions?
Discussion:
if you have any questions about the proposal, want to suggest pet questions or discussion topics, the best place to do so is in the proposal itself.