[Foundation-l] Why don't we re-encode proprietary formats as Ogg?

[Mark (Markie)]

Archive.org do this and I know the tech team at least have previously had
meetings/discussions with them.

Regards

Mark

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:

> We should do this (reencode all major formats to ogg).   It would
> absolutely make more educational material available to commons.
>
> We can make the service available at a reasonable rate now without
> worrying about what happens when thousands of uploaders use it every
> day, and deal with issues as they arise.  As for legal concerns,
> Dailymotion is managing bulk conversion just fine. We can ask them if
> they have to jump through any hoops.
>
> SJ
>
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:25 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/6/7 Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>:
> >
> >> I think there are two issues for a proprietary -> non-proprietary
> converter:
> >> 1. The conversion software itself must be FLOSS.
> >> 2. The format being converted must have an open specification (Flash
> being a
> >> good example of one that might be allowed to be converted).
> >
> >
> > The first is easy: ffmpeg. It converts pretty much anything to pretty
> > much anything. This is what I mean when I say that the technical side
> > of such a thing would verge on the trivial. (Modulo a sufficiently
> > CPU-endowed box for transcoding.)
> >
> > The second - if ffmpeg have worked out the format, it's hardly any
> > sort of secret any more.
> >
> > I think it's something that would be worth doing to get more
> > educational material into free formats and in a repository (Commons)
> > that could spread them to the world, even if they did start in an
> > encumbered format.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
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