In Which Interlaced Video Digitization Makes Me Forget About Dying (For a While)

Presented at A New HOPE (2022), July 22, 2022, 2 p.m. (50 minutes)

A side project to address a growing stack of videotape causes historian and archivist Jason Scott (textfiles.com, Internet Archive) to consider what exactly it means to try and capture data before it disappears forever; and along the way he takes you through oblivion, redemption, hopelessness, and perhaps some small amount of compassion.

You will also learn how to deinterlace video.

Presenters:

• Jason Scott
  **Jason Scott** is the founder of textfiles.com, the Free Range Archivist of the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine, archive.org), and the Rounding Error of the calculus of worthiness to the Underground.

Links:

• https://scheduler.hope.net/new-hope/talk/MAZJFQ/
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/A New HOPE (2022)/A New HOPE (2022) In Which Interlaced Video Digitization Makes Me Forget About Dying (For a While).mp4
• https://infocon.org/cons/2600/A New HOPE (2022)/A New HOPE (2022) In Which Interlaced Video Digitization Makes Me Forget About Dying (For a While).srt (subtitles)

Similar Presentations:

• The Eleventh HOPE (2016) / Now and Then, Here and There
• DEF CON 17 (2009) / Advancing Video Application Attacks with Video Interception, Recording, and Replay
• DEF CON 8 (2000) / TEXTFILES.COM: ONE YEAR LATER