8 Jul
2013
8 Jul
'13
10:55 p.m.
There are more free software-friendly alternatives to YT. I uploaded my
Ardour 3 MIDI tutorial to archive.org, for example:
http://archive.org/details/movies
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Leigh Dyer <lsd(a)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:
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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