Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-09-03 Thread Irina
jay you are SO wrong.
its a 12 year old kid, not a 17 year old kid!
get your facts right.
free john johansen!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Johansen

On 9/1/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I think people want, more than anything, the choice.
  The thing people hate about DRM is it being forced on them and
  limiting their fair use rights.
  I think that letting content creators choose how to publish their
  content is the way forward. DRM is never going to be a one size fits
  all solution to the problem. At the end of the day, even DRM is a
  tool that is useful to some people and will continue to be in the
  future.
  I would hope that no platform provider takes an absolute stance on
  the issue, but allows creators the freedom to build their content and
  their business model in a way that makes sense for them.

 Here's the real story: DRM doesnt work.
 companies spend thousands of hours building it, and millions of
 dollars implementing it.
 They do it through software and hardware.
 Then some 17 year old kids spend a weekend to crack it.

 So Richard's advice for blip to not waste time on DRM is a good one.
 if someone wants something bad enough, they're going to get it.

 We have Creative Commons licenses.
 Its clear...and its about trusting people to be smart and respectful.

 I dont need DRM to lock down my videos.
 Let's say someone grabs my videos and starts making millions of
 dollars
 first, I'd be pretty impressed...but then i'd hire a lawyer to take care
 of it.
 If someone is just being a dick by disrespecting my CC license, Ill
 let the community know.
 ultimately, if someone is a dick and doesnt care about reputation, not
 much i can do.

 But DRM is not for you and me.DRM is built for business.
 they want to make sure the little people dont get their greasy hands
 on their content.
 everyone is suspect. everyone is a criminal.
 forget creating goodwill with the people who keep them rolling in cash.
 people must be stopped.
 stop.

 jay

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 917 371 6790
  




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[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-09-03 Thread bordercollieaustralianshepherd
 jay you are SO wrong.
 its a 12 year old kid, not a 17 year old kid!

2007 - 1983 = 24 doh!
Jon Lech Johansen (born November 18, 1983 in Harstad, Norway)

:-)


--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Irina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 jay you are SO wrong.
 its a 12 year old kid, not a 17 year old kid!
 get your facts right.
 free john johansen!
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Johansen
 
 On 9/1/07, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I think people want, more than anything, the choice.
   The thing people hate about DRM is it being forced on them and
   limiting their fair use rights.
   I think that letting content creators choose how to publish their
   content is the way forward. DRM is never going to be a one size fits
   all solution to the problem. At the end of the day, even DRM is a
   tool that is useful to some people and will continue to be in the
   future.
   I would hope that no platform provider takes an absolute stance on
   the issue, but allows creators the freedom to build their
content and
   their business model in a way that makes sense for them.
 
  Here's the real story: DRM doesnt work.
  companies spend thousands of hours building it, and millions of
  dollars implementing it.
  They do it through software and hardware.
  Then some 17 year old kids spend a weekend to crack it.
 
  So Richard's advice for blip to not waste time on DRM is a good one.
  if someone wants something bad enough, they're going to get it.
 
  We have Creative Commons licenses.
  Its clear...and its about trusting people to be smart and respectful.
 
  I dont need DRM to lock down my videos.
  Let's say someone grabs my videos and starts making millions of
  dollars
  first, I'd be pretty impressed...but then i'd hire a lawyer to
take care
  of it.
  If someone is just being a dick by disrespecting my CC license, Ill
  let the community know.
  ultimately, if someone is a dick and doesnt care about reputation, not
  much i can do.
 
  But DRM is not for you and me.DRM is built for business.
  they want to make sure the little people dont get their greasy hands
  on their content.
  everyone is suspect. everyone is a criminal.
  forget creating goodwill with the people who keep them rolling in
cash.
  people must be stopped.
  stop.
 
  jay
 
  --
  http://jaydedman.com
  917 371 6790
   
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 http://geekentertainment.tv
 
 
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Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-09-01 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
For the record, I would be opposed to ANY sort of DRM, or any other sort of
tech road block for distributing my content. Please Blip.tv don't spend your
time and energy making it more difficult for people to get to my content.

The problem is, of course, that the DRM makes this assumption that the user
is going to try and do something that I don't want them to do, whereas I
believe the majority will respect my license, and, in any case, my main goal
is to deliver it most efficiently to those people, not to block evil people.

On the other hand, if you find anyone using my content inconsistent with
ways I specify in my license, and it's relatively serious, than by all means
I encourage you to try and stop it. So you're energy goes toward catching
someone who has already violated terms.

Of course, it may be (though I'm skeptical) that I will thwart more
criminals by putting this road block up, but the trade off between
screwing up a non-criminal's viewing experience, is not even close to the
advantage of blocking illegal use.

IMHO ... DRM is a bad strategy all around for stopping
illegal/illicit/whatever uses of digital content and I have trouble
imagining a case where I would be for it. (Although if anyone reads this
whole email, they may very well come up with some example that would prove
me wrong).

... Richard (captain anti DRM)

On 8/31/07, Charles Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   I think some vloggers here would appreciate DRM technology that thwarts
 disreputable aggregators who disregard Creative Commons licensing.

 Steve Watkins wrote:
  DRM is understandably unpopular...
  




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Shows
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Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-09-01 Thread Charles Hope
Don't worry, Richard.  There's no DRM on our road map.  However, your concern 
about DRM is that it has the unfortunate side effect of impeding your actual 
target audience.  So you seem to be against crude, inexact DRM, and not the 
ideal type which would only be noticed by violators of the Creative Commons. 
Perhaps you just want better DRM?



Richard (Show) Hall wrote:
 
 Of course, it may be (though I'm skeptical) that I will thwart more
 criminals by putting this road block up, but the trade off between
 screwing up a non-criminal's viewing experience, is not even close to the
 advantage of blocking illegal use.


Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-09-01 Thread Wil Harris
I think people want, more than anything, the choice.

The thing people hate about DRM is it being forced on them and  
limiting their fair use rights.

I think that letting content creators choose how to publish their  
content is the way forward.  DRM is never going to be a one size fits  
all solution to the problem.  At the end of the day, even DRM is a  
tool that is useful to some people and will continue to be in the  
future.

I would hope that no platform provider takes an absolute stance on  
the issue, but allows creators the freedom to build their content and  
their business model in a way that makes sense for them.

Wil


On 1 Sep 2007, at 21:11, Charles Hope wrote:

 Don't worry, Richard. There's no DRM on our road map. However, your  
 concern
 about DRM is that it has the unfortunate side effect of impeding  
 your actual
 target audience. So you seem to be against crude, inexact DRM, and  
 not the
 ideal type which would only be noticed by violators of the Creative  
 Commons.
 Perhaps you just want better DRM?

 Richard (Show) Hall wrote:
 
  Of course, it may be (though I'm skeptical) that I will thwart more
  criminals by putting this road block up, but the trade off between
  screwing up a non-criminal's viewing experience, is not even  
 close to the
  advantage of blocking illegal use.

 



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Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-09-01 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
Charles,

I don't really want perfect DRM. First, of course, it's hard to imagine it
can be done, since the ones who want to violate it are really good at
breaking it. But that's not a real argument, of course, since the perfect
is hypothetical and, in any case, you are infinitely more expert and knowing
what actually would be possible than me. This does have a practical
implication, however, in the trade off between how much effort it would take
someone, even with your skills, to make this perfect DRM, and how much that
would take away time from all the other great things that you do.

My deeper objection is philosophical - and really applies more to media that
is bought (as opposed to what I mae that is free) - it's like, if I purchase
a digital song, or, especially if I buy a physical device, I think my
personal property rights are being violated if someone does something to
degrade that device to stop some other criminal, who is not me.

I'm sure if I spent more time thinking about it, I can imagine scenarios
where I wouldn't want this and it's most likely some point on a continuum
(there's an interesting analogy to gun ownership, that makes me a little
suspicious of my own arguments), but, by and large I lean strongly away from
the DRM sort of philosophy.

... Richard

On 9/1/07, Charles Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Don't worry, Richard. There's no DRM on our road map. However, your
 concern
 about DRM is that it has the unfortunate side effect of impeding your
 actual
 target audience. So you seem to be against crude, inexact DRM, and not the

 ideal type which would only be noticed by violators of the Creative
 Commons.
 Perhaps you just want better DRM?

 Richard (Show) Hall wrote:
 
  Of course, it may be (though I'm skeptical) that I will thwart more
  criminals by putting this road block up, but the trade off between
  screwing up a non-criminal's viewing experience, is not even close to
 the
  advantage of blocking illegal use.
  




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http://richardhhall.org
Shows
http://richardshow.org
http://inspiredhealing.tv


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Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-09-01 Thread Jay dedman
 I think people want, more than anything, the choice.
  The thing people hate about DRM is it being forced on them and
  limiting their fair use rights.
  I think that letting content creators choose how to publish their
  content is the way forward.  DRM is never going to be a one size fits
  all solution to the problem.  At the end of the day, even DRM is a
  tool that is useful to some people and will continue to be in the
  future.
  I would hope that no platform provider takes an absolute stance on
  the issue, but allows creators the freedom to build their content and
  their business model in a way that makes sense for them.

Here's the real story: DRM doesnt work.
companies spend thousands of hours building it, and millions of
dollars implementing it.
They do it through software and hardware.
Then some 17 year old kids spend a weekend to crack it.

So Richard's advice for blip to not waste time on DRM is a good one.
if someone wants something bad enough, they're going to get it.

We have Creative Commons licenses.
Its clear...and its about trusting people to be smart and respectful.

I dont need DRM to lock down my videos.
Let's say someone grabs my videos and starts making millions of dollars
first, I'd be pretty impressed...but then i'd hire a lawyer to take care of it.
If someone is just being a dick by disrespecting my CC license, Ill
let the community know.
ultimately, if someone is a dick and doesnt care about reputation, not
much i can do.

But DRM is not for you and me.DRM is built for business.
they want to make sure the little people dont get their greasy hands
on their content.
everyone is suspect. everyone is a criminal.
forget creating goodwill with the people who keep them rolling in cash.
people must be stopped.
stop.

jay

-- 
http://jaydedman.com
917 371 6790


[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-08-31 Thread Bill Cammack
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  The main features of this release is being able to play Ogg video with
   the included cortado Ogg player.  And on wordpress you can share the
   embed code of your videos so viewers can embed the video on their
sites.
   To download only vPIP go to:
   http://vpip.org/
   and select the document page for where you'll be installing vPIP.
   To download this version of vPIP with ShowInABox go to:
   http://showinabox.tv/wordpress/download/
   and get The Whole Enchilada
 
 and just to be more clear why this new version of vPIP rocks like a
 crazy animal with superpowers:
 
 Enric included an Ogg player in vPIP...so if you provide an Ogg
 version, anyone can watch it without any installation. The embedded
 video will play like flash. The viewer wont know the difference.
 
 Why is this important?
 on the Showinabox list (http://groups.google.com/group/show-in-a-box),
 we've been talking about Ogg which is an open source codecsimilar
 to Flash.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg)
 The big question is: what happens if Flash or Quicktime starts putting
 DRM in their codec? or starts putting in limitations we dont want?
 There's not much we could do. But Ogg, like wordpress, is infinitely
 malleable. Lots of challenges to overcome, but enric did a big thing
 by making the Ogg viewing experience seemless.

That's an excellent point.  Do we have specs on setting up Compressor
for ogg output?  Data Rate, etc?  Or do you use the same settings as,
say, MOV, but just switch the codec?

--
billcammack
http://realfans.tv


 The new vPIP also has a multiple embed-code generator, or Share.
 This lets the viewer choose which video format they want to embed on
their site.
 a person might want the 320x240 Flash version.
 someone else might want to embed the 640x480 HD quicktime.
 choices!
 
 forward and onward.
 
 Jay
 
 
 -- 
 http://jaydedman.com
 917 371 6790





Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-08-31 Thread Jay dedman
  That's an excellent point.  Do we have specs on setting up Compressor
  for ogg output?  Data Rate, etc?  Or do you use the same settings as,
  say, MOV, but just switch the codec?

we need to do some testing using the QT plugin:
http://xiph.org/quicktime/download.html

the default settings look really good.

jay

-- 
http://jaydedman.com
917 371 6790


[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-08-31 Thread Bill Cammack
I see.  You're right.  Default looks good.

I used export - movie to ogg from Quicktime player.  It
introduced a slight lag, maybe 1 or 2 frames with the video trailing
the audio.  That may have something to do with the FPS reading 48.01,
or it may have something to do with watching it in Quicktime player,
because it had to load the ogg as if it was translating the file.  It
didn't open automatically, like a quicktime file you have on your
computer... rather, like a progressive download from the internet.

I'll have to see how it plays in vPiP later today.

--
billcammack
http://realfans.tv

--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   That's an excellent point.  Do we have specs on setting up Compressor
   for ogg output?  Data Rate, etc?  Or do you use the same settings as,
   say, MOV, but just switch the codec?
 
 we need to do some testing using the QT plugin:
 http://xiph.org/quicktime/download.html
 
 the default settings look really good.
 
 jay
 
 -- 
 http://jaydedman.com
 917 371 6790





Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-08-31 Thread Jay dedman
  I used export - movie to ogg from Quicktime player.  It
  introduced a slight lag, maybe 1 or 2 frames with the video trailing
  the audio.  That may have something to do with the FPS reading 48.01,
  or it may have something to do with watching it in Quicktime player,
  because it had to load the ogg as if it was translating the file.  It
  didn't open automatically, like a quicktime file you have on your
  computer... rather, like a progressive download from the internet.
  I'll have to see how it plays in vPiP later today.

yeah...see how it plays in the Ogg player that vPIP uses.
you may also want to use VLC to playback Ogg files on your computer.

Here's note from the developer. You cannot resize the exported Ogg
video, but there is a wordaround:

you can use it to export Ogg Theora directly from Final Cut, one limitation it
still has right now is, that it does not provide options for resize, you
can work around that by creating a new Sequence in the dimensions you want and
place the Sequence you want to export inside that Sequence doing the
scaling in Final Cut.

jay


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Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-08-31 Thread ryanne hodson
not sure if this means what i think it means but:

...the big seller for Adobe is the ability to include in Flash movies
so-called digital rights management (DRM) - allowing copyright holders to
require the viewing of adverts, or restrict copying.

from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6558979.stm

not that flash is fun to convert for copying/remixing,
but it is doable
maybe in the future it won't be a possiblity
for flash or quicktime either...



On 8/30/07, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

   Well yes its a good thing to support formats that are apparently
 unimpinged by patents, and where encoding and decoding stuff for the
 formats is available as open source.

 I dont think the example of DRM is a very likely future nightmare
 reason why people would abandon flash or quicktime, as support for
 DRM-content can coexist quite peacfully with all the non-DRM uses of
 stuff, but yes, there are reasons why people would want to back an
 open format that is free in multiple senses of the word.

 An example of people wanting to switch away from h264 in future would
 be if they put some silly licenses costs on content creators who use
 h264, when these terms are updated in 2010 or something.

 Or yeah if Adobe went insane and did something to flash player that
 made people not want it installed on their machines.

 If these sorts of things dont happen, then there arent too many
 reasons to assume ogg will go massive, but its nice to have it around
 and support for it in many tools, it is based on good principals and
 could be important in the future, depends how many corporations
 behave, and we know from human experience that we cant bank on them
 always being good corporate citizens.

 Am I right to assume the Ogg Theora video playback is provided by this
 java app?

 http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/

 Ive joined the showinabox google group but havent had a moment to post
 there yet, will take most of m future input on this stuff otver there
 from now on.

 I just encoded my first ogg file, using this quicktime plugin stuff:

 http://xiph.org/quicktime/download.html

 It seemed to go ok, but it is late now and Im tired, so I will have to
 stop for tonight.

 Cheers

 Steve Elbows


 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com,
 Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   The main features of this release is being able to play Ogg video with
   the included cortado Ogg player. And on wordpress you can share the
   embed code of your videos so viewers can embed the video on their
 sites.
   To download only vPIP go to:
   http://vpip.org/
   and select the document page for where you'll be installing vPIP.
   To download this version of vPIP with ShowInABox go to:
   http://showinabox.tv/wordpress/download/
   and get The Whole Enchilada
 
  and just to be more clear why this new version of vPIP rocks like a
  crazy animal with superpowers:
 
  Enric included an Ogg player in vPIP...so if you provide an Ogg
  version, anyone can watch it without any installation. The embedded
  video will play like flash. The viewer wont know the difference.
 
  Why is this important?
  on the Showinabox list (http://groups.google.com/group/show-in-a-box),
  we've been talking about Ogg which is an open source codecsimilar
  to Flash. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg)
  The big question is: what happens if Flash or Quicktime starts putting
  DRM in their codec? or starts putting in limitations we dont want?
  There's not much we could do. But Ogg, like wordpress, is infinitely
  malleable. Lots of challenges to overcome, but enric did a big thing
  by making the Ogg viewing experience seemless.
 
  The new vPIP also has a multiple embed-code generator, or Share.
  This lets the viewer choose which video format they want to embed on
 their site.
  a person might want the 320x240 Flash version.
  someone else might want to embed the 640x480 HD quicktime.
  choices!
 
  forward and onward.
 
  Jay
 
 
  --
  http://jaydedman.com
  917 371 6790
 

  




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[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-08-31 Thread Steve Watkins
DRM is understandably unpopular, but lets not get too carried away
with its implications.

DRM mechanisms are already present in many of the formats people use
today. It causes no problem at all for unprotected media. Its only a
restriction if the content creator/distributor chooses to use it, so
the issues it raises will not rear their ugly heads for any vlogger
who is against DRM.

DRM is probably incompatible with creative commons, but again this
only applies if you decide to protect your stuff with DRM, you can
still use formats that technically allow DRM, just dont use that feature.

Now if it was virtually impossible to download flash files, then CC
would be against the use of flash, as this is denying users rights to
download and redistribute content, which is a central right in
creative commons. What that BBC story was refering to the fact that
Adobe announced a desktop player app that would make downloading flash
video even easier, but to stop their customers who are not
progressive, and believe in tight control, from totally going nuts,
they've given them the option to use DRM to restrict things for the
users. Again this will only affect content where DRM is being used.
This stuff is all about business, and the old-fashioned ways of
monetizing creative works, by attempting to levy a charge on their
distribution. Vlogging is generally against that, and so DRM is
largely irrelevant, a future nightmare scenerio where all content is
locked down with DRM, seems highly unlikely as nobody cares about
protecting all content, just content that wants to be protected. 

I know there was that case where Sony (I think) persued an over the
top DRM strategy that backfired when they used a system that sucked
and caused potential security breech to users who had the stuff
installed, and perhaps this has confused the issue somewhat. Anyway
Sony  others probably learnt a painful lesson from that, and these
days whilst DRM is far from dead, some have become more progressive
about these issues, whilst others are at least balancing their
appetite for control with the potential losses from using technology
that sucks so bad it costs them customers. Its all about money, after
all, and if protecting your content isnt part of the economy, nobody
cares about forcing DRM on your stuff, DRM will not make your future hell.

That is unless vloggers decide they actually want a bit more of DRM
and the old ways of control. If the arse falls off the immature video
advertising market, or people run out of other options, some people
who make shows with an aim to make some proper dosh, might start
looking at the old systems of controlled distribution and decide they
want a piece of that action. I dont see many signs of this, although
lots of people on this list have often been very hostile when others
are rehosting their content, it seems to have been deemed as at the
very least bad etiquette, and thus I occasionally waffle about how
this competely contradicts creative commons principals, oh well.

I suppose in the future, depending on how various 'new media networks'
evolve, some vlogers may do deals where one of these networks becomes
their publisher but they have a DRM policy or something else that
places limits on redistribution of your show by others.

I hate DRM and I hope the concept is gradually abandoned, but its just
not any sort of threat or worry for vloggers, indeed it continues to
give a real advantage to independent content, unburdened by it
compared to shows that are on a DRM-loving network. There are
musicians out there who would like to do stuff with their back-catalog
but their publisher has a lot of say in that stuff and so they get
thwarted if their publisher isnt progressive. Its darn frustrating for
them, and the lesson is to read smallprint and consider wider
implications before doing deals.

Cheers

Steve Elbows
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 not sure if this means what i think it means but:
 
 ...the big seller for Adobe is the ability to include in Flash movies
 so-called digital rights management (DRM) - allowing copyright
holders to
 require the viewing of adverts, or restrict copying.
 
 from
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6558979.stm
 
 not that flash is fun to convert for copying/remixing,
 but it is doable
 maybe in the future it won't be a possiblity
 for flash or quicktime either...
 
 
 
 On 8/30/07, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
Well yes its a good thing to support formats that are apparently
  unimpinged by patents, and where encoding and decoding stuff for the
  formats is available as open source.
 
  I dont think the example of DRM is a very likely future nightmare
  reason why people would abandon flash or quicktime, as support for
  DRM-content can coexist quite peacfully with all the non-DRM uses of
  stuff, but yes, there are reasons why people would want to back an
  open format that is free in multiple senses of the word.
 
  An example of people wanting to switch 

Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-08-31 Thread Charles Hope
I think some vloggers here would appreciate DRM technology that thwarts 
disreputable aggregators who disregard Creative Commons licensing.



Steve Watkins wrote:
 DRM is understandably unpopular...


[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-08-30 Thread Steve Watkins
Well yes its a good thing to support formats that are apparently
unimpinged by patents, and where encoding and decoding stuff for the
formats is available as open source.

I dont think the example of DRM is a very likely future nightmare
reason why people would abandon flash or quicktime, as support for
DRM-content can coexist quite peacfully with all the non-DRM uses of
stuff, but yes, there are reasons why people would want to back an
open format that is free in multiple senses of the word.

An example of people wanting to switch away from h264 in future would
be if they put some silly licenses costs on content creators who use
h264, when these terms are updated in 2010 or something.

Or yeah if Adobe went insane and did something to flash player that
made people not want it installed on their machines.

If these sorts of things dont happen, then there arent too many
reasons to assume ogg will go massive, but its nice to have it around
and support for it in many tools, it is based on good principals and
could be important in the future, depends how many corporations
behave, and we know from human experience that we cant bank on them
always being good corporate citizens.

Am I right to assume the Ogg Theora video playback is provided by this
java app?

http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/

Ive joined the showinabox google group but havent had a moment to post
there yet, will take most of m future input on this stuff otver there
from now on.

I just encoded my first ogg file, using this quicktime plugin stuff:

http://xiph.org/quicktime/download.html

It seemed to go ok, but it is late now and Im tired, so I will have to
stop for tonight.

Cheers

Steve Elbows

--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  The main features of this release is being able to play Ogg video with
   the included cortado Ogg player.  And on wordpress you can share the
   embed code of your videos so viewers can embed the video on their
sites.
   To download only vPIP go to:
   http://vpip.org/
   and select the document page for where you'll be installing vPIP.
   To download this version of vPIP with ShowInABox go to:
   http://showinabox.tv/wordpress/download/
   and get The Whole Enchilada
 
 and just to be more clear why this new version of vPIP rocks like a
 crazy animal with superpowers:
 
 Enric included an Ogg player in vPIP...so if you provide an Ogg
 version, anyone can watch it without any installation. The embedded
 video will play like flash. The viewer wont know the difference.
 
 Why is this important?
 on the Showinabox list (http://groups.google.com/group/show-in-a-box),
 we've been talking about Ogg which is an open source codecsimilar
 to Flash.  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg)
 The big question is: what happens if Flash or Quicktime starts putting
 DRM in their codec? or starts putting in limitations we dont want?
 There's not much we could do. But Ogg, like wordpress, is infinitely
 malleable. Lots of challenges to overcome, but enric did a big thing
 by making the Ogg viewing experience seemless.
 
 The new vPIP also has a multiple embed-code generator, or Share.
 This lets the viewer choose which video format they want to embed on
their site.
 a person might want the 320x240 Flash version.
 someone else might want to embed the 640x480 HD quicktime.
 choices!
 
 forward and onward.
 
 Jay
 
 
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Re: [videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-08-30 Thread Jay dedman
  An example of people wanting to switch away from h264 in future would
  be if they put some silly licenses costs on content creators who use
  h264, when these terms are updated in 2010 or something.
  Or yeah if Adobe went insane and did something to flash player that
  made people not want it installed on their machines.
  If these sorts of things dont happen, then there arent too many
  reasons to assume ogg will go massive, but its nice to have it around
  and support for it in many tools, it is based on good principals and
  could be important in the future, depends how many corporations
  behave, and we know from human experience that we cant bank on them
  always being good corporate citizens.

true.
most people dont care about who makes the codecs.
i guess its just interesting if our community were to start developing for it.
kind if like how we started using wordpress.org.
many blogs are becoming increasingly beautiful and amazing because of
all the developing going on.

  Am I right to assume the Ogg Theora video playback is provided by this
  java app?
  http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/

yep.

  I just encoded my first ogg file, using this quicktime plugin stuff:
  http://xiph.org/quicktime/download.html

we just found this today.
It allows you to export to Ogg right out of FCP/iMovie/QT.
i am pretty impressed with how good Ogg looks.

jay


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[videoblogging] Re: vPIP 1.11 Beta (Ogg support share video) available

2007-08-28 Thread Bill Cammack
Share button ROCKS!!! :D

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billcammack
http://realfans.tv

--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The main features of this release is being able to play Ogg video with
 the included cortado Ogg player.  And on wordpress you can share the
 embed code of your videos so viewers can embed the video on their sites.
 
 To download only vPIP go to:
 
 http://vpip.org/
 
 and select the document page for where you'll be installing vPIP.
 
 To download this version of vPIP with ShowInABox go to:
 
 http://showinabox.tv/wordpress/download/
 
 and get The Whole Enchilada
 
 For usage instruction see:
 
 http://wiki.vpip.org/index.php?title=Using_vPIP
 http://wiki.vpip.org/index.php?title=Using_Vlogsplosion
 and
 http://wiki.vpip.org/index.php?title=Playing_Flash
 
 About vPIP
 --
 vPIP (video Playing In Place) dynamically embeds a link video after
 the viewer clicks on the link.
 
 Web pages load quickly with just image and text links. Then when the
 viewer clicks one of the links, it's replaced with the video. Clicking
 on another link closes the prior video and opens the new one.
 
 The supported video (and audio) formats are:
 
 * Quicktime
 o .mov
 o .mp4
 o .mp3 (audio)
 o .smi or .smil
 o .3gp
 * Windows Media
 o .avi
 o .wmv
 o .asf
 o .wma (audio)
 * Flash
 o .swf
 o .flv
 o Ogg
 o .ogg
 
 
 ;),
 
 Enric
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 http://www.cirne.com
 http://www.vpip.org