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