Re: [Advocate Play Ogg] Web-based Theora video transcoding / hosting?

[Benj. Mako Hill]

<quote who="Dave Page" date="Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:41:11PM +0100">
> I've been meaning for a while to work on software to run a website (or
> part of a website) which lets users upload video, and transcodes it into
> Ogg Theora and optionally Flash. This would let people see Theora if
> they wanted to (and this could be the default) but would also permit a
> (lower quality?) Flash version for people who haven't yet made the
> switch.

My understanding is that blip.tv lets you do most of this. Unlike many
of these web video sites, Blip provides a link to the original format in
addition to re-encoding the website in Flash. From what I can tell of
their blog, they support using Theora as the original. I don't know if
they can convert from another format to Theora

I've not used the site myself to try and do this though so if my
understanding based on what I've read is incorrect, someone with more
first hand experience should correct me.

Later,
Mako

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