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MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), the efficient, open industry standard for video encoding, has made huge strides to become the industry leader in all areas – it plays on mobiles and MP3 players, it's used by HDTV and Blu-ray Discs, and cameras and HD camcorders record in it.
A demonstration page of the SublimeVideo player. It still has some bugs in it, but this is rock-solid proof that high-quality Ogg Theora video is capable of quick streaming in this player.
The staff behind the Free Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) have just announced that the 2011 conference will take place on the 5th and 6th of February. This is the first weekend of February, which is right around the time that the other FOSDEMs have taken place. Like always, this event will be taking place in Brussels, Belgium.
YouTube is a very popular web service that allows people to share video content online. Although YouTube and other streaming video websites satisfy many users, you may have reasons to create your own streaming video website. Perhaps you work for a company that wants a more professional face on their media. Or, you may want more control over exactly how your videos are presented.
Streaming video websites like YouTube face growing pressure from consumers to provide support for native standards-based Web video playback. The HTML5 video element provides the necessary functionality to build robust Web media players without having to depend on proprietary plugins, but the browser vendors have not been able to build a consensus around a video codec.
Setting up your own on-demand video site doesn't have to be complicated. Upload some videos and put them up for people to watch — easy enough. But if you're going to be doing a lot of videos, you'll need a way to keep them organized.
"Lighttpd, affectionately known as Lighty is an extremely efficient and lightweight web server. I run Apache 2.2 on all my servers, but have been using Lighttpd for a couple years now to stream video files for a very popular web site I run. Lighttpd has a flv streaming module which can handle more advanced streaming than the usual progressive http streaming.
"The proliferation of standards-based video sharing and collaboration is set to take off with a $US100,000 grant from the Mozilla Foundation to fund the development of the Ogg Theora video codec and server-side streaming software.
