Conference Available Online in Many Languages
With Church members so geographically spread and speaking such diverse languages, distributing the words of the prophets to everyone is becoming more complex and more important than ever. Enabling people to hear the message in their own language will help them strengthen their faith, The Internet is an increasingly useful distribution channel the Church uses to reach a worldwide audience both during and after general conference.
Live Streaming
Live online streaming of October general conference proceedings (with the exception of the priesthood session) will be available in both audio and video formats.
Video streaming will be available in
Audio streaming is available through the LDS.org
Downloadable Audio Archives
English MP3 audio files will be available within two weeks of the broadcast. MP3 files of additional languages will follow the conference by six weeks.
Audio files of April 2007 general conference were available to members in 79 languages the following June. The number of languages represented a significant increase over previous conferences, and we hope to repeat the accomplishment this conference. All the files were captured during the live interpretation of conference and converted into MP3 form. For access to the archives of past conferences visit the LDS.org
Text
The official text of each conference talk is also made available online. English text is available the Thursday after conference. Text in 27 languages is available within four weeks of the broadcast. Braille is available within six weeks. Online PDF versions of the Liahona in 11 languages will be available by the first week of November.
All Formats
For more information on the availability of general conference materials online; in print; and on CD, audiocassette, and DVD, visit lds.org/conference-info.
To find out what is available from general conference by language, click on
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Comments
The video stream (at least the English one) struggles on a 768K ADSL connection.
Aside from that, I must say, Pres. Hinckley has done so much to encourage the presentation of Church media by means of the Internet. I’ve found it *so* much easier to read a lot of this information this way.
I have to wonder, why not make video archives available via Bittorrent? It would create an on-demand catalog of church videos available to members while minimizing the bandwidth cost.
I talked about this at http://beta.tech.lds.org/forum/showthread.php?t=700 and I really think it’s the way to get the video resources out to the members in an efficient manner.
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