I sent in some suggestions regarding Theora yesterday and I got some questions from you guys so I'll answer them.

 

i said this:

Theora should have a feature that disables print screen and video recording software from capturing Theora videos.

 

Alot of you asked me about the Fair Use law. My answer is this. i do know about fair use. The problem is, alot of people don't obey the fair use law as u see with companies getting youtube to take down full videos of their tv shows. People can still have fair use if u disabled printscreen etc. They can get a digital camera and take a photo of the screen. But it will waste more of a person's time who uploads full tv shows which is not fair use, and anything that makes it harder for a person who breaches the fair use law is a good thing.

  Think of it like plasma and lcd tv's, most of them do not have a hard drive recorder built into them to record tv shows. You have to buy a dvd recorder seperately. There
is no law that says lcd/plasma tv manufacturers have to have a hard drive inside the tv's so people can record and use the video for fair use. Musicians don't have to provide written lyrics to their songs so people may have to listen to the entire song and write down the lyrics themselves. Alot of dvd's have copy protection on them so people don't make copies and sell them.

 So that's why if it's possible, Theora should disable printscreen and video capture software from recording videos using the Theora codec and people can still have fair use. I think there is some Actionscript code that can disable printscreen etc for Flash videos so Theora should try.

 

Some of you thought my suggestions are not for this mailing list. i'm sorry for that but i am only a technology newbie so i didn't know.

 

i also said this:

Theora should have a feature where when a user plays a video using the Theora player, the video will be compressed so the file size is smaller and  it will be faster to load. The quality of the video should remain the same.  For example, some 2 hour 16:9 Widescreen High definition 1080p videos are  4Gigabytes in size, so Theora should compress this 4GB video into 100MB  without losing any quality.

 

Now for those that found this funny because you think it's impossible, well all i can say is new technologies are coming out all the time. 100 years ago they didn't even
have cellphones, and now we do. Just this year, researchers have found a way to store 100 DVD's of information onto a single DVD that can be found here:

 

So maybe there is a way to compress a 4GB movie into 100MB without losing any quality.

Hi, I have some suggestions for Theora:

1) Theora should have a feature like adobe flash does that enables direct end user to end user peering which decreases a server's bandwidth usage and cost. Read here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Time_Media_Flow_Protocol

Theora should go one step further and support file sharing.

2) Theora should have a plugin for the safari web browser that runs on the Apple iPhone/iPhone3G/iPhone3GS and the iPod Touch 1st and 2nd generation. The operating systems on all of these are the same and I think it's a type of Mac O/S.

3) Theora should have a feature that disables print screen and video recording software from capturing Theora videos. Alot of webmasters have their videos stolen by people using printscreen and video capture software, so Theora should have a feature where when a person pushes the Printscreen key on their keyboard, and pastes the image, the image will just be a white blank box. When a person uses a video capture software and tries to record a video playing in the Theora player, it will just be a blank white box. Everything else on the screen be will captured, except the Theora player. This will solve alot of copyright problems webmasters have with their videos.

4) Theora should have a feature where when a user plays a video using the Theora player, the video will be compressed so the file size is smaller and it will be faster to load. The quality of the video should remain the same. For example, some 2 hour 16:9 Widescreen High definition 1080p videos are 4Gigabytes in size, so Theora should compress this 4GB video into 100MB without losing any quality.

5) Theora should be integrated into the next version of Internet Explorer for Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7.

Can someone pass my suggestions onto the Theora developers?

Thanks