Re: Fw: [Advocate Play Ogg] Two thoughts: automated conversion, and radio4all.net.

[Stian Rødven Eide]

> and I think we have to code something fast to make ogg be able to be
> played from the web..


Streaming OGG is already very possible. 

Jamendo used to let you choose between Vorbis and mp3 streams when listening 
to an album, now they have begun using some sort of web-player with a lot of 
javascript (crashing my Konqueror). 

Streaming Theora is also not problem, provided the codecs and mimetypes are in 
place. I initially wanted to make the videos our media collective produces 
only available in Theora, and the only obstacle has been the fact that a lot 
of users don't dare, can or want to install (and/or configure) unknown 
software to view a video. We have ultimately encoded most our videos in mp4 
(which probably has a lot to do with the more established branches of the 
collective using Mac PC's), but one video is streamable from our website in 
Ogg Theora. You can try for yourself here: http://spisderike.net/video/55/ 
(again the video my wife made). The site is in Norwegian, but you should 
easily find the icons for popping up video in different sizes just below the 
title (next to "Velg størrelse: (Åpnes i nytt vindu.) ->"). In Ubuntu (with 
Mplayer plugin) the video starts streaming immediately, however users of 
other operating systems have reported much difficulty in viewing the video at 
all.

What I believe is needed to make OGG work as a streaming format is a 
recognition by the browser or media-plugin that prompts the user to install 
the correct codec if it is missing.


peace,
Stian