On 7/21/07, Kat Walsh kat@mindspillage.org wrote:
I want to work with people, too. But I don't think that requires compromises such as allowing patent-encumbered video onto the site, and any partnership that requires such things is no benefit to us.
The Internet Archive does not impose any such requirement. I simply proposed the two together because, IMHO, it makes strategic sense to try to improve both usability and hosting in one fell swoop. But we could work with any player solution if we decide to host content on their site.
I repeat my point with regard to Flash that I really do believe we need more carefully collected data about whether users successfully can play back video without significant problems. That's independent of whether we want to allow playing back selected IA collections using an embedded Theora player, for example -- this would only require that the Archive transcodes those collections, and everything else would be done on our end.