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Jérôme Blanc | 1 Apr 2010 23:08

Re: Theora encoding for videos

Le Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:38:29 +0100,
Guillaume Cottenceau <gcottenc <at> gmail.com> a écrit :

> > as it is possible to make the pictures available in different
> > formats, I would like to be able to do the same for the videos : a
> > small low quality format and a better but bigger format.
> >
> > Any chance to do this ?
> 
> Hum, it's not possible for the moment. The spirit of transcoding was
> to not lose quality, only lose wasted space, so in this sense it is
> not useful to provide different versions. I understand your query but
> videos have been so far not much used in booh.. Also, people tend to
> spend a lot of space with webalbums so with high quality videos it
> will be even worse.. I'm not sure many users would use such feature.
> Btw in next release embedded flash player will be provided so it will
> make a big difference. It's already seeable in the demos, for example
> 
> http://booh.org/themes/cardu/Home/
> 

Mmmm I see. I ask this because my webalbum is hosted on my own server,
behind my personnal DSL line, which means I have a poor upload. So I
would like to propose my viewers either a small but poor quality video,
or, if they can cope with the wait, a big but good quality video.

As for the flash, there is no way I use it. I wish to keep all my sites
standard compliant and … well … I guess I don't need to explain what I
think of flash ;)
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Guillaume Cottenceau | 3 Apr 2010 22:04
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Re: Theora encoding for videos

> Mmmm I see. I ask this because my webalbum is hosted on my own server,
> behind my personnal DSL line, which means I have a poor upload. So I
> would like to propose my viewers either a small but poor quality video,
> or, if they can cope with the wait, a big but good quality video.

I understand.

That said, as there seems to be not a lot of users of booh, I don't
think I'm going to add many more features I don't use. Except if they
seem to be requested by many persons and/or it's clearly an adoption
blocker.

> As for the flash, there is no way I use it. I wish to keep all my sites
> standard compliant and … well … I guess I don't need to explain what I
> think of flash ;)

No big deal. Your call.

> However, I would be most interested in a way to make booh produce proper
> html 5 for embedding videos instead of flash. And preconfigure booh to

Why not, but even if we hear everyday about html5, last time I checked
it was not standard yet and most stuff is not implemented. Would you
like to produce html5 with video and it would not work on MSIE and
even on most firefox?

> generate theora videos so that it can play it's role in the theora/x264
> coming battle.

I have not studied the theora codec much but as for preconfiguring I
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