The Open Video Alliance will be hosting an online chat with Lawrence Lessig tomorrow at 6pm eastern time / 3pm pacific time (see more time zones here.)
There are a lot of events in person as well. I will be at the event near San Francisco.
The event will also be broadcast live with open video, [...]
There was a recent post on LWN suggesting that three specific Nokia patents may cover Theora. A deeper analysis indicates that’s just not true.
Two of the patents 6,950,469 and 7,263,125, are post-VP3 and therefore not relevant because the patent filing dates are after the invention and introduction of VP3 (the basis for Theora.) [...]
Today at the Mozilla all hands I saw two cool things:
1. A decent sized (600×400 or so) Theora video playing on a Nokia N900, decoding on the DSP with the main CPU kept at around 50%. (Pulseaudio is about 10-15% of that, and the rest of Vorbis decoding and some work to get the [...]
The open video alliance has put up a wonderful little video up that tries to talk about all of the issues around open video and why it’s important. It’s based on Interviews that were done at the recent Open Video Conference.
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I switch back and forth between Linux and Windows 7 pretty regularly these days. But I have has this problem with Linux. I can’t run Firefox 3.6 nightlies (which are nicer than the 3.5 release) and Weave and Flash all at the same time. I can run Firefox 3.5 and I can have [...]
Adam Hyde and a small team of people got together in Berlin and wrote up a really great cookbook for people who want to understand Theora, codecs and the issues around open video.
It apparently clocks in at a whopping 212 pages. Hats off to Adam and his crew!
Today Dailymotion, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced support for open video. They’ve put out a press release, a blog post on the new openvideo site as well as a demo site where you can see some of the things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5. They are automatically [...]
Monty posted another update on the work that’s been going on to improve the Theora encoder. It’s worth re-posting here because I think that it includes some compelling images and graphs that show you improvements. So I would suggest that people wander over and have a look at his update.
The headlines include:
1. They [...]
On June 19th and 20th, there will be a conference in New York City on open video. If you’re interested in the problems around open video and want to talk with other people, many of whom are working on solutions, this will be the place to be. Ryanne Hodson and Jay Dedman of Ryanishungry.com recently [...]
Chris Double posted about this but I thought it might be worth it to put together a simple video screencast of what this actually looked like in practice. It’s a damn neat idea and opens up all kinds of possibilities. Once again, with video as a first class citizen on the web, what [...]