[Olpc-open] Dailymotion, Ogg video, and Sugar

[Seth Woodworth]

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 <http://www.dailymotion.com/>, one of the world’s largest
> video sites, announced support for open video. They’ve put out a press
> release<http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090527006237&newsLang=en>,
> a blog post on the new openvideo site<http://blog.dailymotion.com/2009/05/27/watch-videowithout-flash/>as well as a demo
> site <http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideodemo> where you can see some of
> the things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5<http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html>.
> They are automatically transcoding all of the content that their Motion
> Makers <http://www.dailymotion.com/users/popular-week/creative/1>Official
> Users <http://www.dailymotion.com/users/popular-month/official/1> 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. <http://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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