Charbax, >It's great if OLPC can push for creating an open free standard for >online video using Ogg Theora or push some other codec to become open >free standard to use, create new video portals with ogg theora encoded >videos and all that.
I am a big time advocate of open-source and free software. OLPC is about many things but particularly about leveraging open-source software to improve education It is not about leveraging education to enhance open-source software projects. Proprietary codecs and plugins won't go away (as much as I wish they would). We need to allow kids to access open content that happens to be in a proprietary format, ASAP. Bryan Kathmandu On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:13 +0100, Charbax wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Now what would you need, Charbax, in order to recode the > videos you > have for the XO? > > > 95% of the videos I post at http://olpc.tv are videos people posted at > Youtube and other flash video portals. I think it probably would be > illegal to grab the flash video files and encode them to some other > format such as Ogg Theora and republish them without asking each of > the content providers for permission. > > The 5% of the videos in this category http://olpc.tv/channel/charbax/ > that I filmed myself, I can encode a version in Ogg Theora I think, > though is there a way to automatically stream Ogg Theora in full > screen on the olpc laptop? > > I hope gnash will work sometime soon, with some ways to playback > Youtube and all other flash video sites in full screen and smoothly. > There is no other way then to get the webs video standards to work if > you want the kids to access the current online video. It's great if > OLPC can push for creating an open free standard for online video > using Ogg Theora or push some other codec to become open free standard > to use, create new video portals with ogg theora encoded videos and > all that. I just think that perhaps OLPC would be a good way to put > pressure on the established software patent holders, so that they stop > blocking Linux from having good, smooth, legal access to what have > become web standards for video codecs such as flash video and Mpeg4, > VOIP such as Skype, audio codecs such as Mp3, website design such as > flash animations. Proprietary formats that have become so popular on > the web need to be opened up by new laws and regulation or by popular > pressure on those companies that purposefully block interoperability > on those certain features. > > -- > Charbax, > Nicolas Charbonnier _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
