interesting we've had a few episoded in ogg but i dont know much about it
has anyone else had experience with it On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've discussed this before: open video codecs. > Ogg/theora is the big one people talk about. > No one owns it and anyone can modify it. > Its like the Wordpress of video codecs. > > The issue has been that you needed to install software to watch the Ogg > format. > Plus Ogg has been very difficult to embed well. > > Supposedly, the next version of Firefox will have Ogg/Theora built in. > This means anyone using Firefox will be able to watch an Ogg video > with no effort. > Still lots of work to get it all to work...but this is pretty > significant if true. > > Jay > > > It was my last day at ISEA 2008 in Singapore and we were supposed to > > have a dinner with noborder/no one is illegal activists and the > > panelists of the bordercrossing theme, when jaromil came down the > > street smiling all over the face: "I have great news" he screamed. > > "Firefox 3.1 will support OGG Theora!" > > > > In other words: This is most likely the breakthrough for open video on > the web! > > OGG THEORA is the only open source video encoding suite. > > It is available for general use after the bitstream format for Theora was > frozen Thursday, 2004 July 1. <http://theora.org> > > > > Native support in Firefox means that end-users on proprietary > > platforms like windows or mac do no longer have to install additional > > software in order to watch OGG encoded video. If you want to publish a > video you > > can just use the <video> tag like for any image. There is no need for > > additional javascript or flash! > > > > Slashdot writes: > > <http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/31/1752206&from=rss> > > "Ogg Theora support for the HTML5 <video> tag is in the Firefox 3.1 > nightlies. Theora is the only video format allowed on Wikimedia > > Commons, so Wikimedia people are pushing Wikipedia readers to download a > > nightly and try it out. Break it, crash it, report bugs, get it into good > > shape and nullify Apple and Nokia's FUD the best way possible. They may > have > > gotten the words 'Vorbis' and 'Theora' removed from the HTML5 spec, > > but > > the market will tell them when their browsers are sucking." > > > > Christopher Blizzard wrote in his blog > > <http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492> "Mozilla is committing to > include native support for OGG video and audio in its next release > > that includes support for the video element tag. (Very likely to be > Firefox > > 3.1 if there no huge change in course.) The code landed for ogg support > > last night. I suspect that the effects of this will take a long while to > > be felt but it's a great first step in bringing open video to the web by > > delivering it to a couple hundred million people around the world." > > > > At KEIN.ORG and in many related projects (like the "Dictionary of War") > > we have been insisting on the use of an open video compression format > > for many years now. Despite all the complaints about additional > > software installations it seemed crucial to us to give prove of the > > possibility to publish digital video without the licensing and royalty > fees or vendor > > lock-in associated with proprietary formats. > > > > In summer 2003 we started the open source video platform V2V > > <http://v2v.cc> which is entirely based on open source code. Ralph > > Giles, the maintainer of the THEORA project, was one of the > > speakers at "NEURO -- networking europe" <http://neuro.kein.org> in > Munich in > > February 2004. Some months later Jan Gerber has developed > > ffmpeg2theora > > <http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora<http://v2v.cc/%7Ej/ffmpeg2theora>> > a simple converter to create Ogg Theora files. > > > > I am looking forward very much to a wide range of new projects and > > initiatives which may come up now. For example jaromils video mixing > > software FreeJ seems a great tool with huge potential: <http:// > > freej.org> > > > > Let's build an open video alliance! > > > > very best, > > florian > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > > -- http://geekentertainment.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
