Fwd: Dailymotion for XO laptop

[Sebastien Adgnot]

Thanks for offering help. However, I was thinking more about
ressources (time, people, storage, encoding, priorities, etc.).

Anyway, I'm going to report what everybody wrote and see if we can
make it soon ... or later.

Thanks

Sebastien


On Jan 9, 2008 10:32 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 22:19 +0100, Sebastien Adgnot wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help and comments.
> >
> > However it seems quite difficult for us to encode our videos in
> > Theora+Vorbis right now. I'm gonna talk to different people in the
> > company to get their opinion and see what we can do.
>
> If your difficulty is technical, then there are dozens of multimedia and
> web software experts here who would love to step in and help you (at no
> charge).
>
> > In the meantime, I've heard of the Helix Media Player
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_(project) for the OLPC project? It
> > won't be of any help?
>
> The Helix Player is no longer included in the OLPC distribution, though
> it is available as an optional download.  Helix Player only provides
> Theora video.  The user can manually download additional binary-only
> codecs, but this is not supported by OLPC.  This is no easier than
> having users manually install Adobe's binary Flash plugin, which OLPC
> also cannot distribute.
>
>