"...Google has closed the window on HTML5 feedback, saying that peoples' voices have been heard. However, notably absent is any mention of Ogg. Google leaving Ogg out of the picture here makes sense, because it would be very easy for them to offer HTML5/h264 videos that play in Chrome and Safari, while still excluding free formats and users of free browsers like Firefox and Icecat..."
Read more »Video, Freedom And Mozilla
"My LCA talk on Friday was about why open video is critically important to free software, and what Mozilla is doing about [...] So why doesn't Mozilla just license H.264 (like everybody else)? One big reason is that that would violate principles of free software that we strongly believe in.
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TinyOgg: convert Youtube videos to Ogg
Sometimes many of us have problems with the Flash player. It just doesn't work. TinyOgg is the solution for this problem specially if you are using Firefox, Chrome, or Opera.
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Theora 1.1 is released – what you should know
Less than a year after the release of Theora 1.0, the wonderful people at Xiph have released Theora 1.1. The 1.1 release is a software-only release of the Theora encoder and decoder. It does not include any changes to the Theora format.
Read more »Richard Stallman on “Open Source” (as Ogg)
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Working with Ogg Theora and the video tag
The Free Software Foundation's Holmes Wilson is just back from Berlin, where he participated in the Ogg Theora book sprint put on by FLOSS Manuals. Here is a broad look at Ogg Theora and how it fits into the push for free formats: where we're winning, what works, and what could be improved.
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Dailymotion's support for Ogg is a big deal
"With video streaming site Dailymotion offering the free Ogg Theora video format, FSF urges other video sites to follow..."
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Norway Embraces Open Standards, Many Others Follow Suit
Norway embraces ODF and maybe Ogg too; ODF in general spreads rapidly
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HTML5 & Ogg Theora
This whole html tag ordeal is getting out of hand. If we look at the image tag it supports jpeg, png, gif and probably more although I've not tried any others. I wonder how drastic that decision must have been when made ? But seriously as it is now if I don't have the correct plugin both opera & firefox help out if possible.
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Watch Video…without Flash
"Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to free video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform - the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here..."
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Massive Theora Encoder Improvments on the Way
"As part of the Mozilla development grant Timothy in collaboration with other xiph hackers has been hard at work on improving the theora encoder. I am happy to share an updated report that Monty has put together..." -- Start here: http://playogg.org/
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Cheep Codification: Meet Emacs
"Yesterday, I purchased the Meet Emacs screencast. I was n't sure initially if it was deserving the $ 9, but after watching it, I can state without any uncertainty that it is deserving every individual penny..."
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Mozilla Grant will help Wikipedia Support Video
"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.
Read more »[Advocate Play Ogg] Inoggaural coverage
"You can tune in to Ogg Vorbis coverage of the US presidential
inauguration on WBUR at http://www.wbur.org/listen/feed/ogg.m3u..." (WBUR's Ogg Vorbis stream)
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Magellan - Amarok 2.0.1.1 released (including security fix)
Welcome back a few well known and loved features from the Amarok 1.4 series: queuing, playlist search and filtering as well as "stop after current track". And, long awaited and finally available: sorting the collection by composer. We of course also worked on other features and extended the Scriptable Service API to allow smoother integration of service scripts. The LibriVox service script has received some love and comes with new icons amongst other improvements. Media device handling has also seen many improvements: MTP devices can now delete multiple tracks at once, and the status bar gives visual feedback when deleting tracks from iPods. Our OS X users will certainly like the built in Growl notification support.
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