World's First Large-Scale Ogg Theora Stream

Ur@eus writes "The GNOME European Users and Developers conference is currently underway in Kristansand, Norway. The whole conference is available live online as an Ogg Theora stream (the videos of the talks are also archived). This is very exciting as it is a proof of concept that it is possible to do high quality streaming using a fully free format today. The stream is done using the Fluendo streaming server software which will be released under the GPL in a few months. You find information on how to view the streams at the GUADEC streaming website."

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How to play Theora in Windows RealPlayer

[AlexJeff]

Here are the instruction on how to play Theora in your Windows RealPlayer:

http://stream1.hia.no/instructions/theoraandreal wi ndows.html

Here is the best link to the free RealPlayer for Windows:
http://www.real.com/freeplayer/?rppr=hc. org

Re:Real Problems

[Wesley Felter]

Apple releasing an open source codec? Are you kidding? Various people are working on open source H.264 implementations, though. (Just like MP3 and MPEG-4, it's only open source in countried that don't recognize the zillions of patents that cover it.)

Re:doesn't helix do the same?

[radish]

Helix is a player not a codec.

The city name is...

[easter1916]

Kristiansand, not Kristansand. Never heard the Tricky song?

I met a Christian in Kristiansand
And a devil in Helsinki.

Re:The city name is...

[Nodatadj]

I did too
But I believe in the tricky song
It is spelled Christiansands
At least the title is.

Re:Excellent

[Nodatadj]

It was working for us (the gnome people who aren't at guadec) all day yesterday and this morning, so I would say that yes, these problems are due to the /.ing

Re:bork

[sixide]

Especially given that Theora is essentially the same as VP3, which is already in use for streaming video stations.

Windows users: try VideoLAN

[D. Book]

Oddly, the GUADEC streaming site suggests Windows users install the universally loathed RealPlayer and a patch for it, when the free, open-source VideoLAN Client specialises in streaming and includes native support for Ogg Theora. While the live streams don't seem to be working in my case (not sure if this is the fault of the client or server), the Theora streams on the archive page work fine.

Re:Windows users: try VideoLAN

[thomasvs]

I had tried VLC myself as the first player on Win32 while working on the server. I've asked for information on what could be wrong, because except for not starting on a keyframe in the stream the streams are perfectly fine. Even not starting on a keyframe is something a player should be able to handle.

Unfortunately time was limited and we cannot test every player when we're getting ready for our first public test. I'm sure that after this conference we can work together with the VLC people to make the streams work.

Having said that, not putting VLC on the page was an oversight on the part of the person that put up the webpage, and we added it.

Playing Theora files in windows

[hsoom]

I can't get the stream to work so I just tried playing the first file in the archive and it worked.

I can get the theora files to play under the latest version of VideoLAN client.

There are instructions for setting up Real Player to view Theora files. Although some people are saying that the latest version of Real Player is not so bad I still don't want to install it. I must have a grudge :-) and Real Alternative using Media Player Classic (MPC) works fine.

Is there anyway to get Theora files to play with MPC? I thought that if I installed the Directshow Filters it may work but no such luck. This would be really handy because I use MPC for just about everything else.