[Commons-l] Ogg Theora is too hard to play. We need YouTube-style Flash streaming video.

Fri Sep 29 04:53:12 UTC 2006

From: SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com>:
>
> I'm an outspoken fan of fixing and improving Theora, and I think this
> sounds like a fantastic idea.  We should do similar low-res versions
> of audio into something other than .ogg -- but make sure that the
> high-res version we archive and strongly encourage is, in both cases,
> the free-format Ogg version.

Cool. I like your idea about audio. Bug filed:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7433

To all: If you want the request to be fulfilled, it may help if you
visit the above URL, sign up for a Bugzilla account, and vote for the
request.

> There is *no* widely-used completely free audio or video format.  We
> should not allow our strong support for Ogg to prevent our media from
> being used by the overwhelming proportion of our audience that cannot
> (or don't know how to) play those formats.

Maybe the Foundation / local chapters could get the EU to force M$FT
to include Ogg codecs with Windows :-)

> At the same time, we should use our extra free-format-friendly
> energies to promote those formats
> ...

We need to point directly to the .exe file of the latest codec
installer at Illiminable (and we should suggest they create an
ogg-codecs-latest.exe symlink that always points to the latest one.)
We need to far simplify the Free formats help page. It should be so
easy even my mom could grab the Illiminable codecs.

> Oh, yes -- and we can push the Mozilla Foundation to integrate ogg
> players into the default firefox distribution.  <pokes MozFound about
> writing in libtheora support>
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Firefox_Ogg_Support

Is there a bug report? What's the bug URL? There's none listed at the
above URL. But I wanted to vote for it; every vote counts.

Cheers,
Jason

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