[Olpc-open] video documentary formats

[Aaron Whitehouse]

Eduardo,

On 01/12/2007, Eduardo H Silva <hoboprimate at gmail.com> wrote:
> See http://waveplace.net/movies/ . The author has managed to embed ogg
> theora/vorbis videos, have them play well on a XO, and create a
> youtube-similar experience on viewing them.

There are many ways to achieve a YouTube-similar experience using Free
(as in speech) technologies.

People who are interested in this should see:
http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Mv_embed
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OggHandler
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Embed_Media

The advantage in these approaches (especially the first link) is that
they work on any computer with Java or a VLC plugin, but work
especially well on browsers supporting <video> and <audio> tags
(Firefox 3 and some Opera builds).

http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2007-November/001627.html

<video> is likely to become the standard way to display YouTube-like
videos on the web in the future. Using something like MV Embed should
ensure that online videos take advantage of increasing <video> support
while allowing users of less-capable browsers to see the content. Of
course, it would make sense to support <video> tags in the XO browser.

Aaron

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