[LAU] Non Mixer Spatializer Demo

[Leigh Dyer]

On 09/07/13 06:54, Dan MacDonald wrote:
> There are more free software-friendly alternatives to YT. I uploaded my
> Ardour 3 MIDI tutorial to archive.org <http://archive.org>, for example:
>
> http://archive.org/details/movies

Does archive.org automatically transcode videos to WebM and H.264/AAC 
for playback across all platforms/devices? I've been trying to find 
information about that on the website, but I haven't find it yet.

Thanks
Leigh

>
>
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Leigh Dyer <lsd at wootangent.net
> <mailto:lsd at wootangent.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 8/07/13 8:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
>         On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 14:50 -0700, J. Liles wrote:
>
>             http://youtu.be/GVm5Jd1WDWw
>
>
>         Can't be played with Firefox 22.0. Google Chrome can play it,
>         but IMO
>         the need for Adobe Flash Player should be dropped by videos done
>         by the
>         Linux community.
>
>
>     Youtube usually does transcode videos to WebM format for playback on
>     Firefox, etc. using only free codecs. I can't say why Youtube hasn't
>     done that yet for this video; it could just be that it takes a while
>     for the WebM transcodes to happen, and not enough time has elapsed
>     yet. Perhaps within a few days the WebM version will be available
>     and you'll be able to watch the video in Firefox.
>
>     As far as major video sites go, Youtube is way ahead of the curve in
>     its support for free codecs -- there's no alternative video sharing
>     that I know of that offers such (relatively) comprehensive WebM support.
>
>     The alternative is for people posting videos to host them
>     themselves, but that's non-trivial, since you also have to also
>     provide a h.264/AAC version to have the video work on IE, Safari,
>     and most mobile devices. It'd be a shame if users of those platforms
>     were unable to see some of the cool things happening in the free
>     software world.
>
>     So... it's not an easy problem to solve, and currently, there's not
>     really a better solution than Youtube.
>
>     Thanks
>     Leigh
>
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