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

[Alexandro Colorado]

> Part of the reason that Flash is the entrenched format for video on the
> web is that it is simple for users to produce content in that format,
> using YouTube or Google Video or similar. When I've tried to convince
> organisations to use Theora (even in addition to rather than instead of
> Flash) I've been told that it's too difficult. I figure that a site like
> this would remove that obstacle.
>
> What do people think?

Hopefully that will change if Opera and Firefox embed native  
reproduction of the Theora file format.

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2007/04/17/try-opera-with-native-theora-video-support

Unfortunately the Mozilla organization hasn't had much content  
regarding adding this feature. It seems all the development will be  
done through an extension, however it would be good to approach the  
community toward making this a native feature of the browser.
Some info on theora for firefox through Annodex extension:
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora-dev/2006-February/002943.html

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