[Chicago] need C help for my PyCon project

[Pete]

On Saturday February 16 2008 6:05:01 pm Carl Karsten wrote:
> I am trying to get a piece of hardware working with trascode.

When faced with obstinate hardware on linux, the best solution is often to get 
new hardware.

> If I can get this working, I can give people who help everything that
> happens at PyCon - probably 50-100gig of avi files.  I'll send you on DVDs
> so you don't have to download it all.

If you need to convert/post-process/serve such beasts, you might think about 
using Amazon's Web Services (EC2/S3).  CPU-time by the hour + fast 
http/bittorent downloads.  There was an article on doing exactly this with 
python on their developer network: 
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?entryID=691

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