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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 16:20, Lucian Branescu
<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Youtube also has a demo of <video> usage. http://youtube.com/html5

I heard it's using non-free codecs, it isn't?

Regards,

Tomeu

> 2009/5/31 Seth Woodworth <seth at laptop.org>:
>> 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, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced
>>> support for open video. They’ve put out a press release, a blog post on the
>>> new openvideo site as well as a demo site where you can see some of the
>>> things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5.  They are
>>> automatically transcoding all of the content that their Motion
>>> MakersOfficial Users 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.
>>
>> 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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