Re: [LAU] Non Mixer Spatializer Demo

On 09/07/13 06:54, Dan MacDonald wrote:
> There are more free software-friendly alternatives to YT. I uploaded my
> Ardour 3 MIDI tutorial to archive.org <http://archive.org>, for example:
>
> http://archive.org/details/movies

Does archive.org automatically transcode videos to WebM and H.264/AAC
for playback across all platforms/devices? I've been trying to find
information about that on the website, but I haven't find it yet.

Thanks
Leigh

>
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Leigh Dyer <lsd@email-addr-hidden
> <mailto: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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