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choosing Theora

choosing Theora

Posted Apr 12, 2006 22:09 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: First "Firefox Flicks" released by moxfyre
Parent article: First "Firefox Flicks" released

After organising a recent free software event in Northern Ireland, myself and the other organisers faced the decision of how to distribute the recordings. So we started off weighing up the problems and benefits of using Theora.

Problem

  1. Users will have to install the Theora codec

Oh, wait a second, that's a good thing. Decision process ends.

If we, the free software community, won't user our works to increase Theora adoption, who will? Who would we be leaving it to, the Theora developers?


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choosing Theora

Posted Apr 12, 2006 23:40 UTC (Wed) by moxfyre (guest, #13847) [Link]

Right on! That's exactly right.

And, for what it's worth, for most *Linux* users they don't even have to install any plugin or anything to watch Theora videos. For Ubuntu, ogg theora/vorbis/flac/speex "just works" ... I double click on one and up pops Totem.

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