Eric, Are you aware that there is a irc bot that does exactly that for you: it catches all the chatter on irc in cmml?
The code is here: http://svn.annodex.net/scripts/trunk/ircCMMLBot.py Cheers, Silvia. > ------------------------------ > Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 21:56:29 -0500 > From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Debconf-video] Fwd: Native Ogg Theora support in Firefox > To: Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:41:32PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> FYI :) Pretty exciting and cool indeed, IMO :) > > Indeed. I'm really glad they got past the patent FUD wrt to theora to > make this happpen. > > One of my post dc8 plans is to set up a server with mdale's metavid > stuff as a demo of what can be done with content from DC and other confs > I have stores of video data from. > > Which reminds me, I want to capture cmml of the irc channels for later > muxing into the ogg files. > > -Eric Rz. > >> ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- >> >> Subject: Native Ogg Theora support in Firefox >> Date: Thursday 31 July 2008 12:52 >> From: "Planet Xiph: silvia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> What a day for great news! >> >> [Chris Blizzard][1] and [Chris Double][2] of Mozilla have just announced that >> native [Ogg Theora and Vorbis][3] support is now available in the trunk of >> Firefox's codebase. Compiles of that codebase have the support enabled by >> default, which means that very soon now any Firefox that gets installed on >> any platform will come with built-in Ogg Theora/Vorbis support out of the >> box. >> >> This is exciting in more than one way. >> >> First of all: it is a browser implementation of the new HTML5 video tag >> currently in the process of standardisation. Opera is the only other browser >> that has support for the video tag also using Ogg Theora as the baseline >> codec, but [Opera's support is in an experimental branch][4], while Firefox >> will be the first to have native support. >> >> The choice to include Ogg Theora natively is a huge step forward on Mozilla's >> behalf considering the [submarine][5] [patent][6] [debate][7] that has been >> raging around this codec ever since it was removed from the HTML5 >> specification as baseline codec. So, maybe the Mozilla lawyers believe the >> risk of this threat is negligible and if they have, other browser vendors >> may follow. >> >> This is a big day for open media technology and a big day for the future of >> video on the Web. >> >> It is important because the availability of free and unencumbered video and >> audio codecs that are natively supported on the Web will make a huge >> difference in progressing the capabilities of video on the Web. As an >> example, look at the efforts of [Annodex][8], where we are creating video >> webs through a video format with embedded hyperlinks and annotations. To >> make this feasible, you need a standard and open format for the time-aligned >> hyperlinks and annotations, which will only work with a flexible open video >> format. This is just an example: open captioning and karaoke formats, open >> overlay formats and many other extensions to video formats will now be >> feasible. The golden age of online video is starting. >> >> [ >> Michael Dale][9]'s [metavid][10] project is giving us a taste of this future. >> Video can be searched on time-aligned annotations and only the relevant >> video segment will be retrieved. Video segments can be addressed by >> [temporal hyperlinks][11] and recombined easily into new mash-ups simply >> through the creation of a list of temporal hyperlinks. How powerful this >> will be when we do it across sites! This takes video into a completely new >> dimension. >> >> Now, let's step back again from the future to the current exciting news. I am >> particularly proud of the input that Annodex people have made to this >> development - code from people like Conrad Parker, Andre Pang, Zen Kavanagh, >> Shane Stephens, and many others. >> >> Chris Double from Mozilla has been implementing the Firefox Ogg Theora >> support for more than a year and is using Shane Stephens' [liboggplay][12] >> library, which was originally developed by [CSIRO][13] and is in the [code >> repository][14] of the [Annodex Association][15]. liboggplay requires >> libraries from [Xiph.org][16] (libogg, libvorbis, libtheora) and from >> [Annodex][8] ([liboggz][17] and [libfishsound][18]) to work. All of this has >> to work across operating system platforms. >> >> It is an enormous achievement and I congratulate the open media technology >> community on this big success. >> >> [1]: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492 >> [2]: >> http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/07/theora-video-backend-for-firefox-landed >> .html [3]: >> http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/index.cgi/rev/20a2f518b07d5896d9392311 >> b712540b101b53ec [4]: http://ajaxian.com/archives/opera-element-proposal >> [5]: >> http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/12/video-element-and-ogg-theora.html [6]: >> http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2007/12/11/the-attack-against-ogg-theora-or-how >> -i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-proprietary-web/ [7]: >> http://blog.gingertech.net/2007/12/13/about-baseline-video-codecs-and-html5/ >> [8]: http://annodex.net/ >> [9]: http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2008/07/30/native-theora-for-firefox-31/ >> [10]: http://metavid.ucsc.edu/ >> [11]: http://annodex.net/node/69 >> [12]: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggPlay >> [13]: http://ict.csiro.au/ >> [14]: http://svn.annodex.net/liboggplay/ >> [15]: http://annodex.org/ >> [16]: http://www.xiph.org/ >> [17]: http://annodex.net/software/liboggz/index.html >> [18]: http://annodex.net/software/libfishsound/index.html >> >> URL: >> http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/07/31/native-ogg-theora-support-in-firefox/ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Debconf-video mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-video
