We may end up using Flash for most people and posting Ogg links for the few who can't or won't use Flash. This would increase rendering and upload time considerably, so it may not be a practical solution. We'll see.
Meanwhile, please accept my apologies for using a GNU-licensed compression codec that isn't to your taste or that isn't included in your favorite distro by default (although I assure you xvid is readily available for Red Hat/Fedora and Novell/SUSE). I used one that is common to Xine, Totem, mPlayer and virtually all other common Free/free Linux video players. My efforts were obviously not good enough.
But also please realize: given the nature of our audience, whatever codec or video delivery method we use, someone will not be able to view it or will not want to use whatever client it requires, and the more disk space, bandwidth, and rendering/upload time we spend on each video, the fewer videos we will be able to produce and deliver.
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Re:Why not use Ogg Theora?
Posted by: roblimo on July 07, 2006 11:51 PMMeanwhile, please accept my apologies for using a GNU-licensed compression codec that isn't to your taste or that isn't included in your favorite distro by default (although I assure you xvid is readily available for Red Hat/Fedora and Novell/SUSE). I used one that is common to Xine, Totem, mPlayer and virtually all other common Free/free Linux video players. My efforts were obviously not good enough.
But also please realize: given the nature of our audience, whatever codec or video delivery method we use, someone will not be able to view it or will not want to use whatever client it requires, and the more disk space, bandwidth, and rendering/upload time we spend on each video, the fewer videos we will be able to produce and deliver.
Thank you for your understanding,
- Robin
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