On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 01:42:51PM +0530, Arvind Narayanan wrote:
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:33:44AM +0100, Timwi
wrote:
Delirium wrote:
Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
I think we are now in a position to go ahead and
start adding Theora
videos to Wikipedia, if anybody has suitable video to add!
I'm not sure adding videos to Wikipedia in a format that almost nobody
can play is really the absolute best thing to do, even if it is all
fuzzy and open source...
The quantification "almost nobody" applies now, but for how much longer?
Ogg Vorbis has taken off quite remarkably.
No it hasn't. It is almost unheard
of outside the linux world.
Some comments (to the other replies as well):
* "Almost nobody" does not even apply, since Linux and Windoze players are
available. (Sure, if you don't have the player, you can't play anything. Not
quicktime or even mpeg. A format is useless if there is no player available,
if there is some, the format is useful.)
* ogg streams are far from "unheard", as there are commercial desktop dvd
players as well as mobile players/walkmans playing ogg, apart from the
windows players available since Noah. :)
Still,
I support an open format for music/videos. The effort required to get
an ogg plugin for your favorite player is small enough that even if
someone hasn't heard of ogg before it shouldn't be a big deal.
Yes. And a free project ought to popularise free formats, I believe. As
ogg/vorbis players popped up in the market people started to create
ogg/vorbis sound files (you probably can check on p2p nets around). If there
are players [and encoders] and reason to install those players people going
to install them and the format will be used and known.
If they're lazy or uneducated to install a player they probably won't miss
much since Wikipedia content is not multimedia oriented, and this may be a
drive to them to educate themselves and install the players.
Peter