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Video on the Web

Marghanita da Cruz

• January 2009: Recorded and Uploaded Video with Canon MVx250i and then Edited Raw DV with Kino to create Ogg Clips. The video clips were uploaded to youtube in Ogg, but youtube converted them to Flash.
  • Tom Worthington's Talk - background to the Green ICT Course
  • Tom Worthington's Talk on [the development of] his online Green ICT Course
  • Tom Worthington's Talk - Green ICT Course
  • Jose Iglesias-part1 - Introduction - "Green IT"
  • Jose Iglesias-part 2 - Energy Crisis in Data Centers
• October 2008: Frog Calls (Audio only)
• December 2006: Greeting CDROM
• August 2006: Entry to the Creative Commons and Fedora Project Open Video Contest
• July 2006:Video Encoding and Compression

Video in HTML 5

Theora makes its way back into the HTML5 standard! Re: proposed audio/video codec text (July 2009)

The Draft HTML5 Specification describes how video and audio should be incorporated in webpages. Listed below are the relevant items in the current specfication which are under review.

• video and audio codecs - browsers should support Ogg, Vorbis, Theora
  Examples of Ogg/Theora/Vorbis video clips
  • So, what do you do with your video
  • Silvereye on Compost Heap
  • Koalas, Kangaroos, Numbats and Bettons at Warattah Park, Sydney
  • SLUG Monthly Meeting Sydney
  • Canadian Radio streaming Ogg Vorbis
• figure
• video element
• audio element
• media element
• irrelevant
• error codes
• network states
• ready states
• user interface
• security privacy
• ECMA script

Implementing Wishlist for Video on the Web, 21 August 2007 (Work in Progress - comments welcome)

• an ability to associate/display a still image - or first frame on the webpage to indicate video - possibly covered by irrelevant tag
• choice of streaming or download of entire clip - media/video/audio elements
• captioning for the hearing impaired/description for the visually impaired/alternate languages -lang tag
• dubbing/alternate audio streams - multilingual
• Ability to provide alternate versions of video - for those with limited bandwidth/alternate devices- network states?
• Timecoded playlists

Background

• SMIL
• Pango Markup Language
• Caption Quality Campaign
• Straw Polls on XHTML/HTML4.01, ALT Tags

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