this sounds like a good idea to me re: dotsub and have experience there.  i
have contacted them about formats as to wheter they support ogg. re the
freeware tools : try searching on the free software portal of WP and maybe
even wikiversity.

mark


On 8/16/07, Chuck Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm happy we have .ogg files at http://wikimania.tw/streaming/ for the
> video coverage, but they are so incredibly HUGE that they are
> unviewable.  I've tried viewing them with VLC player on Windows and
> Mac to no success... it seems that at a certain point my system runs
> out of memory.  Does anyone know of an open source or freeware tool to
> take a large ogg file (300 MB) and split it into reasonably-sized
> smaller files?  I would prefer software that works on Mac, but Windows
> software would also be acceptable.
>
> Also, are there currently any plans to split the files and make them
> viewable in an archive?  I think an excellent place to put them would
> be on dotsub.com, so they could be subtitled in multiple languages for
> the hearing impaired and those interested who can't understand
> English.  Also, would we need explicit permission from the speaker to
> release these videos under a Creative Commons license?
>
> Best wishes,
> Chuck
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