Here is that video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg6-Mxzsuj0
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@...> wrote: > > > From the articles it sounds like initially the "Add Media" button will allow > > you to add Ogg Theora video from Wikimedia and Internat Archive and perhaps > > others. So you'd need to upload there first. > > What would really be cool is to have the wiki capability for editing video. > > So edit histories can be gone back to (and branched off of) for people to > > create different edits at any time and point. > > Here's another good link explaining what Wikimedia is planning with > video: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Media_Projects_Overview > > At the Open Video conference, it became clear that the Mozilla > foundation, Internet Archive, Wikimedia, and Xiph.org are all working > together to build a FOSS editing platform. Many agreed that Ogg/Theora > is a good FOSS codec to begin with...but not the end. Better codecs > will be developed (like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_%28codec%29 > developed by the BBC). > > The point is to find alternatives to the dominant Quicktime and Flash > codecs. The goal is to have an open standard for video just like there > are open standards for text and images for the web. > > As Enric points out, once there's an ecology for FOSS video...creative > developers can start doing things like "wiki capability for editing > video". Or cool interactive video. But instead of developers fighting > with Flash/Quicktime to get it to do what they want, we can work with > FOSS codec developers. > > I know for creators it's still a difficult argument to make. It's > really a "show me the goods first" moment. How will this make me more > creative? Get more views? Give me better quality compression at a > smaller size? Ensure I have watchable archives in 50 years? > > The future remans to be seen, but good tools are already being built. > Check out http://firefogg.org/ for a neat Firefox plugin that > automatically transcodes videos to Ogg. > > Jay > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://jaydedman.com > http://twitter.com/jaydedman > 917 371 6790 >
