[nzlug] theora format streaming

[Michael Adams]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:03:10 +1200
simon wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 02:59 +1200, simon wrote:
> > Objections to distributing theora video online often include that
> > there are no hosting sites which support the format and that users
> > are required to download the entire file when they'd prefer to
> > stream it. eg.
> > http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/02/08/no_more_stallman_on_youtube.htm
> > 
> > However, there exists:
> > 
> > http://en.theorasea.org/
> > ... video hosting in theora format
> Ahhh - drat - it's not hosting after all. Just indexing.
> Any theora hosting out there <goes back to looking>
> 

>From the discussion around Ogg in the HTML5 spec (Dec 07)[1], i think
you will find that ON2 still hold IP on VP3[2] used in Theora and that
it is a much poorer quality video codec compared to h.264[3].*

Yes i am aware that h.264 is not open. But the implication is that no
Video codec can be considered fully open.

[1] http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/11/1339251&from=rss
[2]
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071210-nokia-wants-w3c-to-remove-out-ogg-from-upcoming-html5-standard.html
[3]http://www.osnews.com/story/19019/Theora-vs-h.264/
* This is not to put any aspersions on Vorbis which is recognised as
being fully open and better than MP3.

-- 
Michael

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