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."

Comments

Huh?

[Bingo Foo]

What concept needed to be proved? Does the freeness of a codec affect its scalability?

Real Problems

[artlu]

Sadly, most of the streaming video is still reliant on Real from my experience. However, most places now have quicktime/mpeg alternatives. Does anyone know if Apple's new codec which will be released with Panther is planning on being Open Source? It is supposedly going to be able to be used for video streams.

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Good! My representative couldn't make it there

[KjetilK]

That's really interesting to see. I'm in Norway, and I've been writing my representatives in the Norwegian parliament "Stortinget" to get them too attend this conference. It is not only about GNOME, mind you, tomorrow, there are a bunch of politicians there, from the starting keynote, then about software patents, EU policies, and finally a big keynote by Dr Edgar Villanueva, our friend from Peru.

Unfortunately, the guy who was closest to getting there was stuck at his office, in spite of Kristiansand being his hometown.

That's too bad, but now I can actually try to have them look at the stream instead, and even failing that, there's the archive.

I wrote that discussion paper...

[Goonie]

Streaming is not that big an issue for Wikipedia. As you'll note from the page, the majority of which seems to have been widely accepted, generally Wikipedia video clips should be short and available in low-resolution versions, so they can just be downloaded in their entirety rather than streamed. The more important issue for Wikipedia was that the bitstream was frozen a little while ago, so anything encoded with the present encoder will be readable into the future.

Quite frankly, however, nobody has actually sought to place video on the Wikipedia yet. I hope it will happen soon, but right now there's been a fair bit of talk but no action from any contributors.

As to your suggested topics, see the last section on legalitiesin the discussion paper. There's a whole pile of extra paperwork you need to keep track of to legally post videos of the kind you wish to post...