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

[lotu5]

I think that it has to "just work". 

The reason that people use youtube and google video is because there are
no technical challenges. You put in a url and get a video playing in
your browser. That's what we have to do, imho. 

  lotu5


On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 18:47 -0700, john duda wrote:
> 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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