Re: [Advocate Play Ogg] Two thoughts: automated conversion, and radio4all.net.

[Michael Fötsch]

rek2GNU/Linux wrote:
>freeyoutube.org :-P if get the funding is possible, since those videos 
> are public to view/download or what is the case for this videos?

A quick check of their Terms of Service reveals that you can't do this legally 
(without a license from all the copyright holders, which is not necessarily 
YouTube).

A different thought: Is the Ogg Theora infrastructure ready for being used by a 
site such as YouTube? I mean, is there browser support for streaming on the 
client side? Is there streaming support on the server side?

The questions are not rhetoric; I really don't know the answers. I asked the 
same question somewhere a while back. I don't know any web site that streams 
Ogg Theora. (Vorbis yes, but no streaming video.)

Is Ogg Theora as a streaming solution competitive yet? If it's just a question 
of packaging up existing pieces of software in one easy-to-maintain "Ogg Theora 
Streaming Server" package, then we should discuss ways of making this happen, 
or helping the Xiph people to make this happen.

I always wonder why it is that not even free software-friendly web sites 
support this. (Do you remeber when Sun released Java under the GPL, and their 
videos were all Flash-based? The converted Ogg files were available only as 
file downloads and only a few days later.)


Kind Regards,
M.F.






       
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