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 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(a)wootangent.net
<mailto:lsd@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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