I´ve also been looking for ogg support youtube-like alternative sites. and lol, wtf with the passive agressiveness?
2009/11/30 Máirín Duffy <[email protected]> > On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 15:12 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > 2009/11/30 Máirín Duffy <[email protected]>: > > > Hi, > > > I just posted a 15 minute 'fun things in Fedora' video. It's on YouTube > > > - I tried blip.tv and the upload kept stalling, so I split the video > in > > > to and got it up on YouTube just so I could make it available more > > > quickly. > > > > > > > http://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/5-fun-things-in-fedora-12-video/ > > > Hope you enjoy, > > > > Unfortunately, one of the five fun things is not watching the five fun > > things videos in a stock fedora install. > > To be fair, the video is aimed at people who are not yet using Fedora. > > > The site requires flash. > > > > … If anyone doing fedora marketing wants to put up videos that don't > > require proprietary software to view, please feel free to drop me an > > email. I'd be glad to help, or if I'm too busy I can connect you > > with someone else willing and able to help. > > > > Supporting open video technology isn't especially hard, and it doesn't > > require losing compatibility with people still on proprietary platforms. > > ... though it is a little more involved than just dropping the videos > > on youtube. > > I hope you didn't mean to hurt my feelings with your message because it > could certainly be interpreted that way. > > As noted, the videos were created in Fedora 12 using PiTiVi. I attempted > to encode them 3 times, for a total of 3 hours rendering time (I let the > last one render overnight last night since I had wasted hours already) > using an Ogg container, Theora video codecs, and Vorbis & Celt sound > codecs. Every single time, the video rendered completely out-of-sync. > Even though gstreamer was used to render it, it refused to play in > gstreamer players, only playing in mplayer. > > I finally had to render it using an avi container / mpeg2 / mp3, and > that only took 15 minutes to render. > > I attempted to upload it to blip.tv at first, as I already noted, and > after 2 failed attempts (a total of 1 hour and 45 minutes of my time) I > gave up and had it uploaded to YouTube in 30 minutes. Whenever I have to > upload something to YouTube, I always make an ogv version available (you > can see in my past blog posts where I've done this) but in this case it > simply was not possible as it would not encode successfully. > > You can ask anyone who knows me - I am insanely religious about software > freedom and codec freedom. After spending hours filming, editing, > rendering, and uploading these video (I would guesstimate about 12 hours > total, during my holiday vacation time) I became impatient and just > wanted to share the video instead of putting myself through continued > pain trying to do it the right way. > > Can you help me get this working with ogg & blip.tv? Is there a bug in > PiTiVi or F12's theora / ogg / celt / vorbis encoders that resulted in > my having such a poor experience? What do you suggest? I used all of the > default settings in PiTiVi as I wasn't sure what encoder settings to > tweak (and at ~1 hour rendering time per attempt making wild guesses > would not be a prudent usage of my time.) > > ~m > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list >
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