Comments on: General Conference Materials Online

By: ldswebguy

ldswebguy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:53:53 +0000

Since the priesthood session is a closed meeting, the Church does not provide the audio and video of the meeting to the general public on LDS.org. You can view priesthood sessions on the DVDs and CDs that are available at Church distribution centers.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:48:18 +0000

There’s an audio podcast feed available over at KSL.

By: Connor Boyack

Connor Boyack — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:55:27 +0000

Okay, I’m an idiot.. I just typed in the “i” and “em” html tags not thinking that they’d be parsed.. so now there are three open italics tags that need to be closed… Sorry Larry.

By: Connor Boyack

Connor Boyack — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:54:29 +0000

Looks like somebody didn’t close his / tag..

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:13:49 +0000

We are pleased to announce that audio files (MP3 format) are now online in English, Spanish, and Portuguese for all sessions (except priesthood session) from last weekend’s general conference.

Why aren’t audio files available for the priesthood session?

By: rmiller

rmiller — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:12:14 +0000

I agree with Connor — Flash video is the new industry standard for video. In addition, posting videos on YouTube and Google Video will bring them to far more viewers and give something positive to people who search for videos about the Church.

By: ldswebguy

ldswebguy — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:46:59 +0000

Yes, the files are up much more quickly this conference–and we hope to beat that record next conference. We would have had all 12 languages up by tomorrow, but we started receiving English text and are giving that priority.

We are working on getting the files into the iTunes store. Still discussing YouTube, Google Videos, etc.

See my new post for the current standards for all new audio and video we create.

By: iPod luvr

iPod luvr — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:19:44 +0000

Awesome, thanks!

How about for my ipod? Can you put the video up in video podcast format so we can watch it on our ipods? The asf video format isn’t compatible.

By: Connor Boyack

Connor Boyack — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 02:28:08 +0000

Hugh, I agree with you about the status conveyed to the videos by posting them on these sites.

Perhaps the church could license or develop their own flash-based video streaming system to display the videos rather than using a proprietary codec that only works on Windows (and on macs with Flip4Mac which isn’t all that great).

My 2¢.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:36:45 +0000

And thanks for tagging the mp3 files. Album art would be nice too.

I don’t really like Connor’s idea of putting them on YouTube or Google. That would make them feel cheap. His suggestion to flash (or mp4) encode video is worthy of consideration.