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

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.

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: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.