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.<br><br>As Chris Blizzard writes:<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">
Today <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/">Dailymotion</a>, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced support for open video. They’ve put out a <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090527006237&newsLang=en">press release</a>, a <a href="http://blog.dailymotion.com/2009/05/27/watch-videowithout-flash/">blog post on the new openvideo site</a> as well as a <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideodemo">demo site</a> where you can see some of the things that you can do with open video and <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html">Firefox 3.5</a>. They are automatically transcoding all of the content that their <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/users/popular-week/creative/1">Motion Makers</a><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/users/popular-month/official/1">Official Users</a>
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 <a href="http://openvideo.dailymotion.com/">openvideo.dailymotion.com.</a></blockquote><div><br>Previously Dailymotion had set up an embedded ogg site for kids, especially kids on XO's using free software at <a href="http://olpc.dailymotion.org">http://olpc.dailymotion.org</a>. At the time there was some discussion of a video upload activity so children could share videos via Dailymotion.<br>
<br>In many countries, bandwidth limitations makes this really unfeasible. But we've recently seen that Uruguay seems to use a lot of web-video: <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/believing_in_dreams_dokeos_and.html">http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/believing_in_dreams_dokeos_and.html</a> . Uruguay also shares news internally when they can via flash video: <a href="http://rapceibal-colonia.blogspot.com/2009/05/rap-ceibal-en-las-plazas.html">http://rapceibal-colonia.blogspot.com/2009/05/rap-ceibal-en-las-plazas.html</a><br>
<br>Is there renewed interest in making video sharing easier on the XO? What would a video upload activity look like?<br><br>--Sww<br></div>