There are more free software-friendly alternatives to YT. I uploaded my
Ardour 3 MIDI tutorial to archive.org, for example:
http://archive.org/details/movies
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Leigh Dyer <lsd@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On 8/07/13 8:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 14:50 -0700, J. Liles wrote:
>>
>>> http://youtu.be/GVm5Jd1WDWw
>>>
>>
>> Can't be played with Firefox 22.0. Google Chrome can play it, but IMO
>> the need for Adobe Flash Player should be dropped by videos done by the
>> Linux community.
>>
>
> Youtube usually does transcode videos to WebM format for playback on
> Firefox, etc. using only free codecs. I can't say why Youtube hasn't done
> that yet for this video; it could just be that it takes a while for the
> WebM transcodes to happen, and not enough time has elapsed yet. Perhaps
> within a few days the WebM version will be available and you'll be able to
> watch the video in Firefox.
>
> As far as major video sites go, Youtube is way ahead of the curve in its
> support for free codecs -- there's no alternative video sharing that I know
> of that offers such (relatively) comprehensive WebM support.
>
> The alternative is for people posting videos to host them themselves, but
> that's non-trivial, since you also have to also provide a h.264/AAC version
> to have the video work on IE, Safari, and most mobile devices. It'd be a
> shame if users of those platforms were unable to see some of the cool
> things happening in the free software world.
>
> So... it's not an easy problem to solve, and currently, there's not really
> a better solution than Youtube.
>
> Thanks
> Leigh
>
>
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