Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop

[NoiseEHC]

I have been following prior discussions about codecs in general (it is 
not about Gnash) and there is one thing I cannot understand.
As I see for example a H.264 AVC codec license is 0 or 10 or 20 
cents/device. If I am mistaken somebody please correct me. See:
http://www.mpegla.com/avc/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf

Sure, using Ogg over MP3 is totally okay, since it is not only free but 
better than MP3. But as others said all the free video codecs are crap 
compared to commercial ones. So my question: is there any reason that 
the OLPC cannot license one good quality codec for ~10 cents? (Not sure 
that it should be H.264 but anything else which runs with adequate speed 
on the XO, and has VideoLAN support.)

Walter Bender wrote:
> Ben is right on target. Rather than going "off shore" to support 
> proprietary codecs, we should be advocating the use of FOSS codecs.
>
> -walter
>
> On Jan 8, 2008 10:06 PM, Rob Savoye < rob at welcomehome.org 
> <mailto:rob at welcomehome.org>> wrote:
>
>     Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
>
>     > There might be some way to embed Theora in Flash in a way that
>     Gnash can play,
>     > but this will never work in Adobe Flash.  I strongly advise
>     that, for OLPC, you
>     > avoid Flash altogether.
>
>       Gnash can already handle both Ogg and Theora as external files just
>     fine. We're also modifying Ming to be able to generate swf files with
>     Ogg and Theora as embedded data. This requires extending the swf
>     spec in
>     a way that still says compatible for FLV, ON2, and MP3.
>
>       To go along with this, I've been working on a clone of the Adobe
>     Media  Server, so we can steam free codecs. Right now you can only do
>     this with icecast, but it doesn't speak the flash protocols, which
>     Gnash
>     now supports.
>
>            - rob -
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