video drupalcamp mpeg encoding

I was talking with Amazon on IRC about video handling, and he suggested I post this here as it might be useful to event organizers.

At DrupalCamp Seattle we spent a lot of time talking about how to handle the video from the sessions, and one of the conclusions we came to was that it needed to be handled ASAP because the longer it waits the more people move onto other things. Initially we were going to have a "video sprint" right after the camp to handle the capturing/transcoding/uploading. Instead, one of our local users Gary Varnell (http://groups.drupal.org/user/6388) came up with a way to capture/transcode on the fly to his Linux laptop over firewire. He wrote a blog post detailing his setup including the perl scripts he wrote to handle it:

http://regx.dgswa.com/html/node/65