What is ogg?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg

Ogg and Why Ogg: an open source codec that we should support

 

Needs

• we need a much better than player than that shitty cortado player. maybe a VLC plugin?

 

Encoders for Ogg:

http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Codecs_Draft_Recommendations#Simple_Theora_Encoder_for_Ogg

 

Good

*****http://xiph.org/quicktime/release_notes.html: QT plugin which also works in FCP and iMovie (this rocks!!!)

Problem: you cannot change the size of the exported Ogg video, but here's a works around:

"you can use it to export Ogg Theora directly from Final Cut, one limitation it

still has right now is, that it does not provide options for resize, you

can work around that by creating a new Sequence in the dimensions you want and

place the Sequence you want to export inside that Sequence doing the

scaling in Final Cut."

 

We also need to build design a better disk image for install. Graphically, we should show where to drag the plugin. Good instructions here and here.

 

******http://www.v2v.cc/~j/Simple%20Theora%20Encoder.dmg: this is also a nice simple encoder for the mac. simple interface. here's a tutorial. you CANNOT change any of the settings. everything is preset which makes it dead easy...but also gives you no control over the Ogg video.

 

Bad

http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/: This is an Ogg transcoder for PC/Mac/Linux  (command line only)

http://youmakemedia.com/2007/04/21/tutorial-transcode-your-video-file-to-ogg-theora/: transcode to Ogg using VLC (sucks)

 

Research

http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/BROWSER_PLAYBACK_OF_FOSS_CODECS

 

http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Mv_embed

"Investigate the recommendation of this script for Transmission

members as a solution that incorporates the use of both the Cortado

applet and the VLC plugin if it is available in the client browser."

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bigeye_trevally.ogg

"Wikimedia uses the Ogg video format. It apparently checks for the

<video> element (beta version of Opera only at this point?) then VLC

plugin (i think, check...) then uses Cortado applet."

 

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Probably best support for Ogg:

The best thing to use is actually mv_embed from  http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2008/01/29/mv_embed-6/ . It lets you use the "video" tag anywhere you like, but provides a very flexible javascript library that dissolves that to whatever capabilities your browser has that are best matched. I.e. if you have a browser that is Ogg Theora capable, it will use that capability to decode. If you have no Ogg Theora decoder, it will use cortado etc. Check it out and see how easy it is! The guys at metavid really do some awesome stuff!