The Cambridge Union Society: Video Recording, Thursday, 29 October 2009 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: This House Believes that Israel Demands Too Much and Gives Too Little in the Peace Process Event Type: Debate Proposition Speakers: Lord Hannay of Chiswick, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Michel Massih QC, Professor Donald Sassoon Opposition Speakers: Stephen Crabb MP, Rt Hon Dr Denis MacShane, Ran Gidor, Robin Shepherd Speaker information: Lord Hannay of Chiswick is the former UK Ambassador to the UN. Stephen Crabb MP is the Chair of the Conservative HR Commission. Jeremy Corbyn MP is a Labour MP and keen supporter of the Palestinian Cause. Rt Hon Dr Denis MacShane is a Labour MP and former Minister of State for Europe. Michel Massih QC is prominent lawyer who headed the case for an arrest warrant against Ehud Barak. Ran Gidor is Counsellor for Political Affairs at the Embassy of Israel. Professor Donald Sassoon is the Co-founder of 'Independent Jewish Voices'. Robin Shepherd is the Director of International Affairs at the Henry Jackson Society. Notes: More Heat than Light President: Julien Domercq Results: Ayes, to the right: 252 votes. Noes, to the left: 114 votes. There were 142 abstentions. The motion passed by 138 votes Runtime: 01:57:29 Recorded at: The Cambridge Union Society, on Thursday, 29 October 2009, by Richard Neill. Copyright, The Cambridge Union Society, 2009 This is released under a Creative commons, attribution, noncommercial, no-derivatives License, whose full terms may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ . This archive may be located at: http://www.cambridge-union.org Files ----- The following files are included: * cus_2009-10-29_debate_thb-israel-demands-too-much_archive_mpeg4-768x576-2000k-mp3-48000-192k.avi This is the main, archival quality video (1834 MB). * cus_2009-10-29_debate_thb-israel-demands-too-much_stream_mpeg4-640x480-1000k-mp3-48000-128k.avi Slightly reduced quality, and smaller file-size for general watching. (949 MB). * cus_2009-10-29_debate_thb-israel-demands-too-much_stream_mpeg4-320x240-300k-mp3-44100-64k.avi This is designed for ADSL-connections, and is similar quality to YouTube. (313 MB). * cus_2009-10-29_debate_thb-israel-demands-too-much_stream_mpeg4-320x240x15fps-60k-mp3-22050-24k.avi This is designed for low-bandwidth connections (or small portable devices). Reduced quality. (78 MB). * cus_2009-10-29_debate_thb-israel-demands-too-much_stream_vorbis-32000-32k.ogg This contains just the audio, ideal as a podcast. (29 MB). The original aspect-ratio is 4:3 at 720x576 pixels, i.e. the standard PAL defaults. Playback software should automatically scale it to 768x576 (because TV-camera pixels aren't square, but LCD pixels are). Filenames contain information about the codecs, in the pattern: video{codec-resolution-bitrate}-audio{codec-samplerate-bitrate} The video is already de-interlaced. Download Location ----------------- These files may be downloaded from: * The Cambridge Union Society http://www.cus.org/debate_archive/cus_2009-10-29_debate_thb-israel-demands-too-much * The Internet Archive mirror http://www.archive.org/details/cus_2009-10-29_debate_thb-israel-demands-too-much Please use the mirror if you can, for faster downloads. Playback -------- We recommend either of the following programs for playback: * VideoLAN http://www.videolan.org/ * MPlayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ Both of these are Free Software, work excellently, and are cross-platform (Linux, Macintosh, Windows). [Unfortunately, Windows Media Player is notoriously incompatible with most file-formats, and we cannot recommend it.] Credits ------- The video-generation script was written by Richard Neill, and is Free Software, released under the GNU GPL v3. It can be downloaded from http://richardneill.org/source Particular thanks are due to FFMPEG for handling most of the format-conversion work: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/