[Olpc-open] Nortel LearniT animations (Seth Woodworth)

[Bryan Berry]

Charbax,

>It's great if OLPC can push for creating an open free standard for
>online video using Ogg Theora or push some other codec to become open
>free standard to use, create new video portals with ogg theora encoded
>videos and all that.

I am a big time advocate of open-source and free software.

OLPC is about many things but particularly about leveraging open-source
software to improve education

It is not about leveraging education to enhance open-source software
projects.

Proprietary codecs and plugins won't go away (as much as I wish they
would). We need to allow kids to access open content that happens to be
in a proprietary format, ASAP. 

Bryan
Kathmandu

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:13 +0100, Charbax wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         Now what would you need, Charbax, in order to recode the
>         videos you
>         have for the XO?
> 
> 
> 95% of the videos I post at http://olpc.tv are videos people posted at
> Youtube and other flash video portals. I think it probably would be
> illegal to grab the flash video files and encode them to some other
> format such as Ogg Theora and republish them without asking each of
> the content providers for permission.
> 
> The 5% of the videos in this category http://olpc.tv/channel/charbax/
> that I filmed myself, I can encode a version in Ogg Theora I think,
> though is there a way to automatically stream Ogg Theora in full
> screen on the olpc laptop?
> 
> I hope gnash will work sometime soon, with some ways to playback
> Youtube and all other flash video sites in full screen and smoothly.
> There is no other way then to get the webs video standards to work if
> you want the kids to access the current online video. It's great if
> OLPC can push for creating an open free standard for online video
> using Ogg Theora or push some other codec to become open free standard
> to use, create new video portals with ogg theora encoded videos and
> all that. I just think that perhaps OLPC would be a good way to put
> pressure on the established software patent holders, so that they stop
> blocking Linux from having good, smooth, legal access to what have
> become web standards for video codecs such as flash video and Mpeg4,
> VOIP such as Skype, audio codecs such as Mp3, website design such as
> flash animations. Proprietary formats that have become so popular on
> the web need to be opened up by new laws and regulation or by popular
> pressure on those companies that purposefully block interoperability
> on those certain features.
> 
> -- 
> Charbax,
> Nicolas Charbonnier