Free Electrons has just posted the videos from the last Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2012 who took place early November last year in Barcelona. There are about 50 talks on topics such as real-time, kernel development, multimedia, hardware, and more. Your editor, who participated to the recording effort, and did the entire encoding work for those videos, also left a few recommendations for talks he found really great at ELCE.
At the same time, Free Electrons is releasing videos from the the embedded track at FOSDEM 2012, who took place February last year in Brussels Belgium. Eight talks on various embedded topics: OpenRISC, Qt development, the IIO kernel subsystem, how to safely upgrade embedded systems in the field, power management for SoCs in the Linux kernel, etc.
The reason the encoding took so long is because our encoding script was no longer working in recent versions of Ubuntu: ffmpeg regularly introduces regressions in the processing of MPEG Transport Stream files that come out of our HD camcorders. So, your editor has now switched over to the Git version of libav (for which he received an absolutely excellent support from the #libav IRC channel), and built a Linux chroot with all the tools needed to do the video encoding. So hopefully, the video encoding for future conferences should now be a much easier experience, allowing to post the videos in a more timely fashion.