Flutterby™! : iPad loses video capabilities

Hmmm... I recently figured out how to get the Petaluma city council and committee videos on to the iPad for viewing, using VLC. A complaint has been filed with Apple because the app store license terms conflict with the GPL (MacWorld provides a user friendly article).

So now the only way to watch those videos on the iPad is to have someone else transcode them (you already had to have a real computer to download the videos, though). I'll probably implement this at some point (though that is a pretty processor intensive process, and I'm not sure where I'll stash the compute for that), but it does point to an increasing divide between Steve Jobs' vision and the open (software/source/data) movements.