[IMC-Video] [IMC-Tech] [Fwd: <nettime> A youtube for the activist world]

[john duda]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:13:11PM -0700, Echograph wrote:

> 
> The problem we are having is how to write code that supports are the 
> various file formats of video that exist.
> YouTube addresses this by converting all uploads to FLV format. This 
> code is not in the public domain.

there is theoretically support in the engagemedia indytube fork
(https://svn.engagemedia.org/project/indytube ) for doing ffmpegtheora
conversion, and displaying the resulting ogg file in the browser with
cortado, a java applet.  this is a 100% free software solution, but i
don't have a good sense for how this works for average users.  the
regular indytube(using mencoder for the encoding, which handles just
about anything you throw at it, and flash/flv for the playback)
there's still patent/licensing issues around the video format itself
which are unfortunate...

-john


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