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

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

My understanding of blip.tv is that it provides only mov and flv
formats, but not theora to viewing. It may well be possible to upload
theora, but not to play back in theora.

It would indeed be cool if there was a free hosting site for theora video!

Regards,
Silvia.

On 5/30/07, Benj. Mako Hill <address@hidden> wrote:
> <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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