Daily Motion, OLPC and Theora
A while back it was announced that Daily Motion, an online video site, had opened an OLPC channel for sharing videos encoded using Theora for playback on OLPC's.
The channel, http://olpc.dailymotion.com, contains theora videos aimed at the OLPC audience. What's nice is that the videos playback in Firefox 3.1 using the native Theora support and don't require a plugin, for example this video.
Looking at the Daily Motion page it seems they use the <object> element to playback the Ogg Theora file, which uses the internal decoder and player user interface. This is a nice result from the adding of support for direct loading of Ogg files that Robert worked on.
Categories: firefox, theora, video
The channel, http://olpc.dailymotion.com, contains theora videos aimed at the OLPC audience. What's nice is that the videos playback in Firefox 3.1 using the native Theora support and don't require a plugin, for example this video.
Looking at the Daily Motion page it seems they use the <object> element to playback the Ogg Theora file, which uses the internal decoder and player user interface. This is a nice result from the adding of support for direct loading of Ogg files that Robert worked on.
Categories: firefox, theora, video
Labels: mozilla
posted by Chris Double at 2:06 PM
3 Comments:
Something that still irks me is that for those who don't have an Ogg decoder, Firefox will prompt to install a plugin. But then it reveals knowing of no plugin to support application/ogg (and, by proxy, video/ogg and audio/ogg).
This is a big usability problem for the common folk, which could probably be fixed easily.
the problem with the Objetc Ogg comes from mozilla, as they won't add a proposal for ogg in their PFS service.
Vlc and LibOggplay would have been a nice candidate, But won't be necessary when everybody will be on 3.1
do you know of any way to upload videos *from* and XO? (that is, recorded using "Record"). Youtube used to allow that, but apparently that is no longer working.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgy1GQDjbL8
thanks
Yama
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