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World's First Large-Scale Ogg Theora Stream

Posted by timothy on from the moving-images dept.

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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  1. How to play Theora in Windows RealPlayer by AlexJeff · · Score: 4, Informative

    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

  2. Re:Real Problems by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.)

  3. The city name is... by easter1916 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Kristiansand, not Kristansand. Never heard the Tricky song?
    I met a Christian in Kristiansand
    And a devil in Helsinki.
  4. Re:Excellent by Nodatadj · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

  5. Playing Theora files in windows by hsoom · · Score: 3, Informative
    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.