Category Archives: OGG

reminder: lessig chat tomorrow (thursday, feb 25th) at 6pm eastern / 3pm pacific

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Lessig, OGG, Open Web, Standards, Video | 6 Comments

some additional information about theora and patents

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

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two cool open video notes

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, OGG, Video | 10 Comments

why open video?

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 4 Comments

bringing theora to youtube (the hard way)

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in OGG, Video, Youtube | 37 Comments

the theora cookbook

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in OGG, Video | 4 Comments

dailymotion and open video

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Daily Motion, Firefox, Freedom, OGG, Open Web, Video | 33 Comments

continued theora improvements

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in OGG, Open Web, Video | 17 Comments

the open video conference – june 19-20 in NYC

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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, … Continue reading →

Posted in Communities, Events, Freedom, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 3 Comments

open web video screencast #3 – creating your own player

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

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. … Continue reading →

Posted in Firefox, JavaScript, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video, Web Standards | 17 Comments