[IAEP] Dailymotion, Ogg video, and Sugar

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 16:25, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 16:20, Lucian Branescu
> <lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Youtube also has a demo of <video> usage. http://youtube.com/html5
>
> I heard it's using non-free codecs, it isn't?

Looks like that to me:

this works: http://www.double.co.nz/video_test/test4.html
this doesn't: http://youtube.com/html5

In Soas-2. Let's hope that google works fast and imitates dailymotion soon.

Regards,

Tomeu

> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> 2009/5/31 Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org>:
>>> As many of you have likely seen, Dailymotion is transcoding all of their
>>> videos to OggTheora in parallel to their current videos served via flash.
>>>
>>> As Chris Blizzard writes:
>>>
>>>> Today Dailymotion, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced
>>>> support for open video. They’ve put out a press release, a blog post on the
>>>> new openvideo site as well as a demo site where you can see some of the
>>>> things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5.  They are
>>>> automatically transcoding all of the content that their Motion
>>>> MakersOfficial Users create and expect to have around 300,000 videos
>>>> transcoded into the open Ogg Theora and Vorbis formats.  You can view the
>>>> site they have up at openvideo.dailymotion.com.
>>>
>>> Previously Dailymotion had set up an embedded ogg site for kids, especially
>>> kids on XO's using free software at http://olpc.dailymotion.org.  At the
>>> time there was some discussion of a video upload activity so children could
>>> share videos via Dailymotion.
>>>
>>> In many countries, bandwidth limitations makes this really unfeasible.  But
>>> we've recently seen that Uruguay seems to use a lot of web-video:
>>> http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/believing_in_dreams_dokeos_and.html
>>> .  Uruguay also shares news internally when they can via flash video:
>>> http://rapceibal-colonia.blogspot.com/2009/05/rap-ceibal-en-las-plazas.html
>>>
>>> Is there renewed interest in making video sharing easier on the XO? What
>>> would a video upload activity look like?
>>>
>>> --Sww
>>>
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