On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Edward Cherlin <<a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Now what would you need, Charbax, in order to recode the videos you<br>
have for the XO?<br></blockquote></div><br><br>95% of the videos I post at <a href="http://olpc.tv">http://olpc.tv</a> 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.<br>
<br>The 5% of the videos in this category <a href="http://olpc.tv/channel/charbax/">http://olpc.tv/channel/charbax/</a> 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?<br>
<br>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.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Charbax,<br>Nicolas Charbonnier