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Ogg Theora Book Sprint
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| The event is another in the growing body of FLOSS Manuals Book Sprints,
| kicked off by our first meeting to write a manual for Inkscape. The aim
| of these sprints is to write a book in 5 days. Actually, we have done
| it it in shorter time â in February of this year we wrote a 260 page
| manual introducing newbies to the Command Line in 2 days. Though
| created quickly, these books are extremely well written texts:
| comprehensive, readable, and complete.
|
| [...]
|
| For a long time we have been wanting to add to the available material
| on how to use Ogg Theora â the premier free video codec. Waiting until
| now to do it turned out to be very fortuitous as Firefox 3.5 was
| released just weeks before and hence Theora has been given a very
| recent boost with native support via the HTML5 video tag. As it happens
| a lot of the technologies supporting Theora have come to recent
| maturity. Only a few months ago it was hard to find a simple GUI editor
| for Theora video but now PiTiVi can manage simple editing very easily
| and smoothly and the development track looks very good. Theora also has
| great subtitling support, either through embedded subtitles or using an
| extension to JQuery javascript libraries.
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http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/09/ogg-theora-book-sprint.html
Open format for local map data
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| TomTom of the Netherlands has proposed a new open standard that would
| allow currently incompatible, localised data, to be more widely used.
| Called OpenLR, it covers "procedures and formats for the encoding,
| transmission, and decoding of local data irrespective of the map".
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/145085
Recent:
Linux Needs Open Multimedia on the Web
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| The state of web multimedia on Linux is pitiful. Proprietary codecs, plug-ins
| and closed standards are helping to keep Linux a second rate citizen. What
| Linux needs is not another proprietary framework like Moonlight, but more
| open standards. Can Google help by making YouTube a Theora-fest?
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http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7483/1.html
Working with Ogg Theora and the video tag
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| The Free Software Foundation's Holmes Wilson is just back from Berlin, where
| he participated in the Ogg Theora book sprint put on by FLOSS Manuals. Here
| is a broad look at Ogg Theora and how it fits into the push for free formats:
| where we're winning, what works, and what could be improved.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/working-with-theora
Open Letter to Mozilla Regarding Their Use of HTML5 Video
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| Simply put, "Video for everybody" uses the <video> tag if your browser
| supports it, using OGG video. If your browser does not support it, it falls
| back to Flash. Is Flash not supported either? QuickTime will be used (which
| allows playback on the iPhone). Don't have QuickTime either? Internet
| Explorer in Windows Vista and up will switch to Windows Media Player.
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http://www.osnews.com/story/21700/Open_Letter_to_Mozilla_Regarding_Their_Use_of_HTML5_Video
[whatwg] Google's use of FFmpeg in Chromium and Chrome
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| Saving a megabyte here and there is less important than having a video
| format that is free and open for all to use. Dailymotion.com has
| understood this and their recent offerings using <video> and Ogg
| Theora is laudable [1]. This was exactly what I've been hoping for,
| and arguing for, since the <video> element was proposed [2][3].
|
| [1] http://blog.dailymotion.com/2009/05/27/watch-videowithout-flash/
| [2] http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/video/
| [3] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5545573096553082541
|
| At Google, you have a unique opportunity to be part of this. You have
| the video clips, the disks, the processing power, and the talent to
| launch a service that will firmly establish <video> and Ogg Theora as
| the video solution for the web.
|
| However, it seems that Google doesn't care much for having a free and
| open video format. Most of the bits you put out on the web are in
| patent-encumbered formats, and this doesn't seem to bother you.
| Rather, you promote patent-encumbered formats in your new experimental
| service [4].
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http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020254.html
HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight?
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| HTML 5, a groundbreaking upgrade to the prominent Web presentation
| specification, could become a game-changer in Web application development,
| one that might even make obsolete such plug-in-based rich Internet
| application (RIA) technologies as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun
| JavaFX.
|
| The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) HTML 5 proposal [1] is geared toward
| Web applications, something not adequately addressed in previous incarnations
| of HTML, the W3C acknowledges. In other words, HTML 5 tackles the gap that
| Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX are trying to fill.
|
| [...]
|
| Google may also face some touchy decisions. For example, its YouTube
| subsidiary uses Flash for its video, but the inclusion of HTML 5 capabilities
| in browsers might cause YouTube to rethink that decision, notes Fette. "It's
| a cost/benefit analysis that they'd need to make."
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http://www.infoworld.com/print/79291
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