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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 |
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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 | |
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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 |
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09:00 - 09:30 | Breakfast |
09:30 - 12:00 | Lightning talks
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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 |
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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 has:
- Voltage: 100 V
- Frequency: 50 Hz (but in Kyoto/Osaka, 60 Hz)
This is the lowest household voltage in the world, so check the specifications on your power adapters.
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.