[Foundation-l] Freedom, standards, and file formats

[mboverload]

Please note that a new version of VLC has just been released.

The user interface for the basic commands is much, much nicer now.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> As I see that there are a number of well introduced people in this
> matter, I want just to give the input from my experience (I am an
> admin at the company which archives media and doing press clipping).
>
> - For us, Flash was never an option, while WMV, MPEG (1 and 2) and
> OGG/Theora are. Note that the company in which I am working has to
> adapt to their customers. Simply, no one of customers wants Flash.
> (BTW, MPEG 1 and 2 are useful because there are hardware encoders on
> ["hardware"] TV cards. WMV is useful because of the possibility to
> make a very small video file.)
>
> - There are VLC, MPlayer and similar plugins for web browsers which
> allow watching video [from browsers]. It makes usage of OGG/Theora
> format similar to usage of Flash ("click here to download the
> plugin").
>
> - It is already mentioned that HTML5 will have <video> tag and that
> Firefox 3.1 supports it.
>
> From this perspective, I don't see a reason why to adopt Flash *now*.
> It was an option few years ago, but there is no need for that now. If
> some free software is not stable enough now (like VLC or MPlayer
> plugins), it is reasonable to build a solution around that software.
> We will not make anything like that (even Flash based) in the next 6
> or 12 months and until that time free software may be much more
> stable.
>
> BTW, VLC is a really good piece of software (including their streaming
> software VLS). Did anyone think to make contact with them? I am sure
> that it would be possible to work on "the solution for Wikipedia" with
> them.
>
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