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

I'm willing to help test this

[Anonymous Coward]

...as long as the person in the streaming video is cute, female, and scantily clad.

Re:I'm willing to help test this

[Vaevictis666]

I'm willing to help test this...as long as the person in the streaming video is cute, female, and scantily clad.

The usual would be three options, pick two. But since this is the internet, you'll probably have to settle for just one of the three... Sorry.

Re:Huh?

[BFaucet]

I believe the significance of this is that now there's a large stream available on the web... that you can point people to. Saying to someone that a ogg streams rock is very different than showing them.

Hopefully radio stations and Public Radio shows will adopt Ogg. At the moment, most if not all use Real *shudder*.

Re:Huh?

[Mr. Bad Example]

> What concept needed to be proved?

That thousands of people saying "Ogg Theora" all at once sounds like a cat the size of Montana hacking up a hairball.

Re:Huh?

[Psymunn]

Forgive me for beign naive, but if i went up to the magority of people i know and said 'hey man, there's this kick ass confrence streaming on the internet, and guess what: it's OGG' i'd receive a whoel lot of WTF.
Don't get me wrong, i support ogg because it's 'free as in awesome', and i hate realplayer because it's 'annoying as in YAPI' (yet another plug in) but i think another format is just going to confuse new users.
What's more, joe user isn't truly going to embrace something like ogg until bob porn producer does.

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.

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

Excellent

[nizo]

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.

All three people who have software to decode this format and 10 megabit connections are very excited!

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.)

The city name is...

[easter1916]

Kristiansand, not Kristansand. Never heard the Tricky song?

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