VDD19

Welcome to Video Dev Days 2019

The VideoLAN non-profit organization is happy to invite you to the multimedia open-source event of the summer!

For its eleventh edition, people from the VideoLAN and open source multimedia communities will meet in Tokyo to discuss and work on the future of the open-source multimedia community.

This is a very technical conference, focused on low-level multimedia.

Who can come?

Literally every one is invited to VDD, we just need registration for legal reason (to enter the building).

This is a technical conference, focused on low-level multimedia, like codecs and their implementations like x264 or dav1d, frameworks like FFmpeg or Gstreamer or playback libraries like libVLC.

Things like Javascript video frameworks or ad-injection frameworks would be considered out of scope.

The price to enter is totally Free.

Sponsorship for Japan

Since Japan is a bit further than the usual conferences, often in Europe, going to Japan is more expensive.

If you want VideoLAN to sponsor your trip, you should read the Sponsorship Policy.

Traveling to Japan

You should consider staying a bit longer to Japan, if you can afford a few extra days.

You should take care of your passport and, if applicable, your visa very quickly!

Rémi has written a short guide about that: traveling advice for Japan.

Schedule

Friday November 8th

Community bonding day!

Da Tokyo game

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Meeting tbd

Address : tbd

Evening drinks

19:30 Evening drinks at the...

Sponsored by Mozilla.

(NB: food is not provided there)

Saturday November 9th

Planning

Time	Auditorium
08:30 - 09:00	Registration & Breakfast
09:00 - 09:25	Welcome words by Jean-Baptiste Kempf, VideoLAN
09:25 - 09:40	AV1: in the end, what got in? by Pascal Massimino, Google
09:40 - 10:05	Dav1d: a fast new AV1 decoder by Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Ronald Bultje
10:05 - 10:30	rav1e: the best rust AV1 encoder by Thomas Daede, Mozilla
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break! by the Coffee committee
10:50 - 11:20	FFv2 by Rostislav Pehlivanov, FFmpeg
11:20 - 11:50	x265: an update by Pradeep Ramachandran, MCW
11:50 - 12:15	VLC 4.0 by Jean-Baptiste Kempf, VideoLAN
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch break! by the Lunch committee

Goodies distribution will start at 14:00

Time
14:00 - 18:00	Meetups
19:30 - ??:??	Community Dinner by the Dinner committee

VideoLAN community dinner

Dinner will be at 19h30, located at Port de Javel Haut.

Sunday November 10

Time	Description
09:00 - 09:30	Breakfast
09:30 - 12:00	Lightning talks
12:00 - 14:00	Lunch by the Lunch Committee
14:00 - 18:00	Unconferences
20:00 - ??:??	Unofficial Dinner by the Unofficial Dinner Committee

Unconference schedule

Time	Description
06:30 - 07:00	Beyond Breakfast Coffee by VideoLAN

Practical information

Location / main venue

The meeting is happening at the IIJ HQ:

Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
Iidabashi Grand Bloom
2-10-2 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 102-0071
Japan

From Tokyo Central:

• JR Chuo line to Iidabashi, or
• Tokyo metro Tozai line from Otemachi to Iidabashi.

From Tokyo Ueno:

• JR Yamanote line (clock-wise) or Keihin-Tohoku line (south-bound) to Akihabara, then
• JR Chuo-Sobu line (west-bound) to Iidabashi.

Accomodation / Hotel

TBA

Transportation

Be sure to get a Japanese electronic payment card to travel easily on the public transports. To get around on local transit, you can use Google Maps or other.

NOTE: VideoLAN does not refund taxi, car rental and public transport.

JR Pass

Depending on the length of your stay and that of your JR Pass, you might want to save it for outside the conference days.

Anyway, with a valid JR Pass, you can ride on the Tokyoite JR East services for free, notably the Yamonote loop and the Chuo-Sobu transversal train lines, by showing your pass at the manned gate, and JR-operated buses by showing your pass to the driver. Nevertheless you still need to pay on the metro and on private rail and bus lines.

Airport transfer

See VDD19/Air travel.

Means of payment

VISA and MasterCard cards are not universally accepted in Japan. You will need to withdraw cash from an international ATM. You can find those:

• at the airports when you arrive
• in 7-11 convenience stores throughout Tokyo and other cities,
• and during office hours in Japanese Post offices.

Do not bother with to local banks ATMs, most of which are incompatible.

For day-to-day small transactions, you should procure a FeliCa electronic payment card. They can be used to enter and exit public transports (train, metro, bus, etc), to check out at convenience stores and many shops. There are two options in Tokyo area:

• the (free but time-limited) Welcome Suica card from any JR East Travel Service Center (including Narita and Haneda airports),
• the normal Suica card, or
• a Pasmo card.

You can charge the card with Japanese bank notes - not (directly) with your credit card.

For large transactions such as hotel bills, you can use your debit or credit card, which should be cheaper than cash withdrawal. We recommend to refuse direct currency conversion (charging in your home currency) if the merchant offers it.

If you want to be on the safe side, consider exchanging 20,000 or 30,000 JPY in advance from your local bureau de change. Be sure to compare fees and avoid airport bureaux as their rates are usually awful.

Power supply

In Tokyo the electrical supply is:

• Voltage: 100 V
• Frequency: 50 Hz

This is different from almost anywhere else, so check the specifications on your power adapters.

Also note that Western Japan uses 60 Hz, so look out for that if you will be going there too.

Electrical sockets

Japan uses Type A power sockets like North America. They are not compatible with European or Commonwealth sockets, so you may need to buy passive adapters BEFORE YOU COME to Japan. (In Japan, adapters will target Japanese going to Europe, not so much vice versa).

Internet

Please bring your own internet.

Contact

The VideoLAN Dev Days are organized by the board members of the VideoLAN non-profit organization:

• Jean-Baptiste Kempf,
• Denis Charmet,
• Konstantin Pavlov, and
• Hugo Beauzée-Luyssen.

You can reach us here.