Ohh - thanks for sharing jxself !
Why are you using the lower quality Theora in the ogv conatainer instead of
WebM? For second, I forgot what year it was and it was before 2010.
Ask the FSF. This is what it was streamed in. All I did was capture the raw
stream with wget and put it online, nothing more. Encoding it into another
lossy format is not a good idea, to lose even more.
"VP8 is better in every way than Theora, as far as I know"
Except one: Theora is easier on the CPU to encode and decode. Considering the
laptop that's doing the encoding (probably an X60 with libreboot because they
want to pull off the even using only free software) this may be another
why is Theora lower quality than webm doesn’t it just depend on the
bitrate?
It's lower quality for a given size, because VP8's compression is much
better. I don't know for sure whether Theora is capable of being as high
quality as VP8 or not, but that's a moot point, really. VP8 is better in
every way than Theora, as far as I know. It really is strange that the FSF
If you missed the live stream I captured it.
Some things to note: The audio drops out for a while but does return later.
As a result you miss some of what John is saying. Also, the audio & video
seem to be out of sync but I overlooked this by not watching the speaker's
mouths. Finally, the
I agree with that comment a 100%. (By the way, are you on Diaspora or GNU
social? I want to hear more from you!)
It's a crucially important thing that RMS emphasises in this speech. The work
of the free software movement has changed character and become more difficult
because it can no longer be mainly focused on building software replacements
that people can use in freedom (GNU's Not Unix), but must
