Re: [Debconf-video] Fwd: Native Ogg Theora support in Firefox
Eric,
Are you aware that there is a irc bot that does exactly that for you:
it catches all the chatter on irc in cmml?
The code is here: http://svn.annodex.net/scripts/trunk/ircCMMLBot.py
Cheers,
Silvia.
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> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 21:56:29 -0500
> From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric@zhevny.com>
> Subject: Re: [Debconf-video] Fwd: Native Ogg Theora support in Firefox
> To: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
> Cc: debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org,
> debconf-video@lists.debconf.org
> Message-ID: <[🔎] 20080803025629.GE13944@zhevny.com>
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>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:41:32PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> FYI :) Pretty exciting and cool indeed, IMO :)
>
> Indeed. I'm really glad they got past the patent FUD wrt to theora to
> make this happpen.
>
> One of my post dc8 plans is to set up a server with mdale's metavid
> stuff as a demo of what can be done with content from DC and other confs
> I have stores of video data from.
>
> Which reminds me, I want to capture cmml of the irc channels for later
> muxing into the ogg files.
>
> -Eric Rz.
>
>> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>>
>> Subject: Native Ogg Theora support in Firefox
>> Date: Thursday 31 July 2008 12:52
>> From: "Planet Xiph: silvia" <bozo@dev.null.invalid>
>>
>> What a day for great news!
>>
>> [Chris Blizzard][1] and [Chris Double][2] of Mozilla have just announced that
>> native [Ogg Theora and Vorbis][3] support is now available in the trunk of
>> Firefox's codebase. Compiles of that codebase have the support enabled by
>> default, which means that very soon now any Firefox that gets installed on
>> any platform will come with built-in Ogg Theora/Vorbis support out of the
>> box.
>>
>> This is exciting in more than one way.
>>
>> First of all: it is a browser implementation of the new HTML5 video tag
>> currently in the process of standardisation. Opera is the only other browser
>> that has support for the video tag also using Ogg Theora as the baseline
>> codec, but [Opera's support is in an experimental branch][4], while Firefox
>> will be the first to have native support.
>>
>> The choice to include Ogg Theora natively is a huge step forward on Mozilla's
>> behalf considering the [submarine][5] [patent][6] [debate][7] that has been
>> raging around this codec ever since it was removed from the HTML5
>> specification as baseline codec. So, maybe the Mozilla lawyers believe the
>> risk of this threat is negligible and if they have, other browser vendors
>> may follow.
>>
>> This is a big day for open media technology and a big day for the future of
>> video on the Web.
>>
>> It is important because the availability of free and unencumbered video and
>> audio codecs that are natively supported on the Web will make a huge
>> difference in progressing the capabilities of video on the Web. As an
>> example, look at the efforts of [Annodex][8], where we are creating video
>> webs through a video format with embedded hyperlinks and annotations. To
>> make this feasible, you need a standard and open format for the time-aligned
>> hyperlinks and annotations, which will only work with a flexible open video
>> format. This is just an example: open captioning and karaoke formats, open
>> overlay formats and many other extensions to video formats will now be
>> feasible. The golden age of online video is starting.
>>
>> [
>> Michael Dale][9]'s [metavid][10] project is giving us a taste of this future.
>> Video can be searched on time-aligned annotations and only the relevant
>> video segment will be retrieved. Video segments can be addressed by
>> [temporal hyperlinks][11] and recombined easily into new mash-ups simply
>> through the creation of a list of temporal hyperlinks. How powerful this
>> will be when we do it across sites! This takes video into a completely new
>> dimension.
>>
>> Now, let's step back again from the future to the current exciting news. I am
>> particularly proud of the input that Annodex people have made to this
>> development - code from people like Conrad Parker, Andre Pang, Zen Kavanagh,
>> Shane Stephens, and many others.
>>
>> Chris Double from Mozilla has been implementing the Firefox Ogg Theora
>> support for more than a year and is using Shane Stephens' [liboggplay][12]
>> library, which was originally developed by [CSIRO][13] and is in the [code
>> repository][14] of the [Annodex Association][15]. liboggplay requires
>> libraries from [Xiph.org][16] (libogg, libvorbis, libtheora) and from
>> [Annodex][8] ([liboggz][17] and [libfishsound][18]) to work. All of this has
>> to work across operating system platforms.
>>
>> It is an enormous achievement and I congratulate the open media technology
>> community on this big success.
>>
>> [1]: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=492
>> [2]:
>> http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2008/07/theora-video-backend-for-firefox-landed
>> .html [3]:
>> http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/index.cgi/rev/20a2f518b07d5896d9392311
>> b712540b101b53ec [4]: http://ajaxian.com/archives/opera-element-proposal
>> [5]:
>> http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2007/12/video-element-and-ogg-theora.html [6]:
>> http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2007/12/11/the-attack-against-ogg-theora-or-how
>> -i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-proprietary-web/ [7]:
>> http://blog.gingertech.net/2007/12/13/about-baseline-video-codecs-and-html5/
>> [8]: http://annodex.net/
>> [9]: http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2008/07/30/native-theora-for-firefox-31/
>> [10]: http://metavid.ucsc.edu/
>> [11]: http://annodex.net/node/69
>> [12]: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/OggPlay
>> [13]: http://ict.csiro.au/
>> [14]: http://svn.annodex.net/liboggplay/
>> [15]: http://annodex.org/
>> [16]: http://www.xiph.org/
>> [17]: http://annodex.net/software/liboggz/index.html
>> [18]: http://annodex.net/software/libfishsound/index.html
>>
>> URL:
>> http://blog.gingertech.net/2008/07/31/native-ogg-theora-support-in-firefox/
>>
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