[IMC-Video] [IMC-Tech] cloning youtube?

[john duda]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:16:04AM +0200, boud wrote:

in general, my concern is without a solution that "just works",
indymedia users will increasingly turn to commercial services like
google's youtube which offer them no semblance of protection of their
personal data.  i'd rather code something quick with admittedly
questionable software ethics if it helps people make and distribute
media without putting themselves at more serious legal risk.  we could
go back and forth on this, but there's always been compromises in
indymedia.

> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
> 
> Does anyone have experience with this?
> 
> Could people starting to support flash at least try out gnash and other
> free packages?
> 

gnash doesn't do video playback. it is "right around the corner"
according to the developer mailinglists, but who knows....

> 
> i tried:
>   -oac twolame  -twolameopts br=56
> 
> and got: ...
> [NULL @ 0x86a4660]codec not compatible with flv

yeah, flv apparently likes mp3, pcm, and adpcm.  the latter might be
something to look into, but i know little about it or how well it
compresses.

> 
> The b frame stuff just says that mplayer developers have not fully
> protected the user from making bad combinations of certain options,
> and they found a creative way of avoiding bug reports about an error
> they know people are likely to make.

that i knew! i'm just curious how often a random media activist would
produce a qt/avi/theora/whatever file that would exhibit that b-frame
charcteristic.

-john


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