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Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-19T02:32:08Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Ça y est, vous y êtes! Formats libres, médias ouverts. De beaux mots, de beaux mots mais que signifient-ils pour vous?

Probablement pas grand chose encore, mais écoutez-moi.

Ces mots signifient vidéo de haute qualité (HD). Ils signifient musique de haute qualité dans des fichiers de plus petites tailles. Ils signifient des fichiers de bureautique qu'on peut lire n'importe où, peu importe le système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur. Ils signifient des listes de musique que vous pouvez partager avec qui vous voulez. Plus important : ils signifient la liberté vis â vis des "cadenas" des grandes compagnies.

Oui... les grandes compagnies. Elles veulent cadenasser vos fichiers, vos médias. Essayez de faire une copie de sécurité d'un de VOS films sur DVD. Oh, c'est vrai, cela ne fonctionne pas. C'est ainsi que plusieurs compagnies maintiennent le monopole sur les logiciels et gardent la haute main sur le marché des lecteurs de musique numérique. Au détriment de la liberté de leurs clients. Votre liberté!

Ne préférez-vous pas plutôt supporter des compagnies qui ne vous priveront pas de votre liberté? Cela ne peut se faire que si vous utilisez des formats libres, ainsi ces compagnies seront amenées, forcées par la demande de la clientèle, à vendre des lecteurs et des contenus multimédias qui fonctionnent avec les formats libres. Ne voulez-vous pas être libre d'utiliser vos médias n'importe où, là où vous le désirez? Vous avez certainement entendu parler des GDN (DRM), mais ce n'est que la pointe l'iceberg en matière de formats non-libres.

Ce qui nous préoccupe encore plus c'est que ces formats non-libres pourraient appartenir à une compagnie qui ne permettrait pas qu'ils soientt utilisés ailleurs que sur ses propres produits, ou qu'une telle compagnie demande de payer une licence à toute personne qui voudrait utiliser ses formats non-libres. Par exemple quand vous achetez un film sur DVD, vous payez non-seulement pour le contenu déjà trop cher, mais aussi pour la licence qui vous permet de les écouter. Une petite anecdote, vous vous souvenez de la XBox orignale. Même si elle était équipée d'un lecteur de DVD comme l'était son compétiteur, à la différence de ce dernier, la XBox ne pouvait pas jouer de films sur DVD. Microsoft n'avait pas payé la licence pour le permettre forçant ses clients à acheter un coûteux accessoire qui couvrait, lui, les frais de la dite licence. Ce n'est certainement pas la bonne façon de servir sa clientèle. Et ne parlons pas du MP3. Demandez à Microsoft comment ils se sentent d'avoir à payer des millions en dommages et intérêts à Alcatel-Lucent pour que sa clientèle puisse continuer à utiliser un format qui sonne comme un VHS audio.

Les formats non-libres n'ont d'intérêt que pour ceux qui en détiennent les brevets. La liberté d'éviter de payer des licences inutiles ne devrait pas être prise à la légère.

Pas encore convaincu? Les CD audio ne sont plus à la mode depuis le début du XXIe siècle, c'est ainsi que quelques-uns se sont tournés vers le prochain mode de distribution de la musique : les magasins de musique en ligne. Maintenant imaginez. Il y a une personne, juste un bon gars qui se débat pour donner un bon service en représentant les musiciens en gagnant une commission au passage. C'est un intermédiaire. Comme il n'est pas encore devenu immensément riche, il se trouve qu'il n'arrive pas à payer toutes les licences requises pour vendre la musique de ses musiciens dans des formats non-libres, et il sait bien qu'il ne peut simplement pas la vendre dans des formats libres et ouverts car les clients ne savent pas qu'ils devraient utiliser ces formats libres ou plus simplement qu'ils s'en foutent. Donc, il devra abandonner ou se tourner vers l'illégalité en priant de ne pas se faire prendre.

Vous - oui, vous - pouvez éviter que cela se produise. Tout ce que vous avez à faire c'est d'utiliser des formats libres et ouverts comme Vorbis (.ogg) et FLAC pour votre musique plutôt que le format MP3 ou tout ce qu'ils essaieromt de promouvoir pour le remplacer. Ou utilisez Theora (.ogv) pour vos vidéos.

Toujours pas convaicu? C'est bien, revenons sur le sujet de la liberté. Le concept des médias ouverts signifie deux choses : la liberté d'utiliser le format choisi peu importe la raison ou le but (c'est uniquement possible avec les formats libres) et la liberté d'utiliser le contenu pour n'importe quel usage que vous désirez (c'est uniquement possible si le contenu est mis à votre disposition sous une licence libre).

To achieve Open Media, a special kind of nirvana to some, a useful tool to others, these two battles to free content must be fought. Free formats and free licenses. And Open Media is only one step for the betterment of humanity.

Does it sound like some hippy bullshit? It's not. It's about leaving a better world for the next generations.

Well, but is it about quality as well as it is about the freedom? Hell yeah.

Public tests show that Vorbis is far superior to MP3 and other more modern lossy formats like Musepack and AAC. Classic, Pop, Rock, any kind of music! And it has multi-channel support! DJs know the power of Vorbis and, thanks to Ogg's streaming capabilities, so do online radio owners.

On the speech front nothing beats Speex. It's powerful, scalable and people use it in such different areas as podcasts, VoIP, audio books, and talking robots. Record a sample of your voice and compare the quality and the file size between a Speex and an MP3 file. The result is staggering. Not only is the Speex file way smaller, it sounds better!

And in the lossless audio front, FLAC is unbeatable. Good compression, low CPU overhead and — blasphemy! — it works on portable players. It's everyone's favorite choice for archiving music digitally. Metallica uses FLAC and so should you.

That covers audio, but what about video? The future will likely hold Dirac, but right now you have Theora. In its early years, Theora has suffered from bad support in tools, which made it look as if it had bad quality. Nothing could be farther from truth. Theora rivals most MPEG-4 formats, it beats Xvid, and it's ready to provide the world with video for everyone for the next five or more years until something better comes along. And that at a fraction of CPU power used by its rivals. Theora's performance makes it the ideal choice for video in low-powered devices like the XO laptop from the OLPC project or mobile phones. It is that good.

What if you wanted to share audio or video with your friends? Why, you would have XSPF for that. It is the one playlist format that gets it right. No, seriously. Try compare it with any other. It is no wonder multimedia applications like VLC are using it internally. It's simple, it's pratical, and it does everything one may want from a playlist and more.

We talked about the stuff you and I use, but what about the niche markets? The stuff only a few use? Are you wondering about your graphic designer friend? Then fret not. Until recently, graphic designers were forced to use proprietary formats to work with vector graphics. Now? Now they have SVG, a browser-compatible, scriptable and cool format. Your friend can use it for both simple drawings and complex applications. How complex, you ask? Well, let's mix SVG, Theora and bit of scripting and you get this. Pretty cool, uh?

The formats are here, but they can't make the decision for you. It's you who must decide if you want Open Media or not. Make the world a better place. Support freedom, support quality. Use Open Media, use free formats.

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-19T02:31:34Z

Acotte:

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-19T02:25:11Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Ça y est, vous y êtes! Formats libres, médias ouverts. De beaux mots, de beaux mots mais que signifient-ils pour vous?

Probablement pas grand chose encore, mais écoutez-moi.

Ces mots signifient vidéo de haute qualité (HD). Ils signifient musique de haute qualité dans des fichiers de plus petites tailles. Ils signifient des fichiers de bureautique qu'on peut lire n'importe où, peu importe le système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur. Ils signifient des listes de musique que vous pouvez partager avec qui vous voulez. Plus important : ils signifient la liberté vis â vis des "cadenas" des grandes compagnies.

Oui... les grandes compagnies. Elles veulent cadenasser vos fichiers, vos médias. Essayez de faire une copie de sécurité d'un de VOS films sur DVD. Oh, c'est vrai, cela ne fonctionne pas. C'est ainsi que plusieurs compagnies maintiennent le monopole sur les logiciels et gardent la haute main sur le marché des lecteurs de musique numérique. Au détriment de la liberté de leurs clients. Votre liberté!

Ne préférez-vous pas plutôt supporter des compagnies qui ne vous priveront pas de votre liberté? Cela ne peut se faire que si vous utilisez des formats libres, ainsi ces compagnies seront amenées, forcées par la demande de la clientèle, à vendre des lecteurs et des contenus multimédias qui fonctionnent avec les formats libres. Ne voulez-vous pas être libre d'utiliser vos médias n'importe où, là où vous le désirez? Vous avez certainement entendu parler des GDN (DRM), mais ce n'est que la pointe l'iceberg en matière de formats non-libres.

Ce qui nous préoccupe encore plus c'est que ces formats non-libres pourraient appartenir à une compagnie qui ne permettrait pas qu'ils soientt utilisés ailleurs que sur ses propres produits, ou qu'une telle compagnie demande de payer une licence à toute personne qui voudrait utiliser ses formats non-libres. Par exemple quand vous achetez un film sur DVD, vous payez non-seulement pour le contenu déjà trop cher, mais aussi pour la licence qui vous permet de les écouter. Une petite anecdote, vous vous souvenez de la XBox orignale. Même si elle était équipée d'un lecteur de DVD comme l'était son compétiteur, à la différence de ce dernier, la XBox ne pouvait pas jouer de films sur DVD. Microsoft n'avait pas payé la licence pour le permettre forçant ses clients à acheter un coûteux accessoire qui couvrait, lui, les frais de la dite licence. Ce n'est certainement pas la bonne façon de servir sa clientèle. Et ne parlons pas du MP3. Demandez à Microsoft comment ils se sentent d'avoir à payer des millions en dommages et intérêts à Alcatel-Lucent pour que sa clientèle puisse continuer à utiliser un format qui sonne comme un VHS audio.

Les formats non-libres n'ont d'intérêt que pour ceux qui en détiennent les brevets. La liberté d'éviter de payer des licences inutiles ne devrait pas être prise à la légère.

Pas encore convaincu? Les CD audio ne sont plus à la mode depuis le début du XXIe siècle, c'est ainsi que quelques-uns se sont tournés vers le prochain mode de distribution de la musique : les magasins de musique en ligne. Maintenant imaginez. Il y a une personne, juste un bon gars qui se débat pour donner un bon service en représentant les musiciens en gagnant une commission au passage. C'est un intermédiaire. Comme il n'est pas encore devenu immensément riche, il se trouve qu'il n'arrive pas à payer toutes les licences requises pour vendre la musique de ses musiciens dans des formats non-libres, et il sait bien qu'il ne peut simplement pas la vendre dans des formats libres et ouverts car les clients ne savent pas qu'ils devraient utiliser ces formats libres ou plus simplement qu'ils s'en foutent. Donc, il devra abandonner ou se tourner vers l'illégalité en priant de ne pas se faire prendre.

Vous - oui, vous - pouvez éviter que cela se produise. Tout ce que vous avez à faire c'est d'utiliser des formats libres et ouverts comme Vorbis (.ogg) et FLAC pour votre musique plutôt que le format MP3 ou tout ce qu'ils essaieromt de promouvoir pour le remplacer. Ou utilisez Theora (.ogv) pour vos vidéos.

Still not convinced? Okay, back to the subject of freedom and liberty. The concept of Open Media is one that means two things: freedom in the use of the chosen format for any and whatever reason (only possible when you deal with free formats) and freedom to use the content for any and whatever reason (only possible when the content is made available under a free license). To achieve Open Media, a special kind of nirvana to some, a useful tool to others, these two battles to free content must be fought. Free formats and free licenses. And Open Media is only one step for the betterment of humanity.

Does it sound like some hippy bullshit? It's not. It's about leaving a better world for the next generations.

Well, but is it about quality as well as it is about the freedom? Hell yeah.

Public tests show that Vorbis is far superior to MP3 and other more modern lossy formats like Musepack and AAC. Classic, Pop, Rock, any kind of music! And it has multi-channel support! DJs know the power of Vorbis and, thanks to Ogg's streaming capabilities, so do online radio owners.

On the speech front nothing beats Speex. It's powerful, scalable and people use it in such different areas as podcasts, VoIP, audio books, and talking robots. Record a sample of your voice and compare the quality and the file size between a Speex and an MP3 file. The result is staggering. Not only is the Speex file way smaller, it sounds better!

And in the lossless audio front, FLAC is unbeatable. Good compression, low CPU overhead and — blasphemy! — it works on portable players. It's everyone's favorite choice for archiving music digitally. Metallica uses FLAC and so should you.

That covers audio, but what about video? The future will likely hold Dirac, but right now you have Theora. In its early years, Theora has suffered from bad support in tools, which made it look as if it had bad quality. Nothing could be farther from truth. Theora rivals most MPEG-4 formats, it beats Xvid, and it's ready to provide the world with video for everyone for the next five or more years until something better comes along. And that at a fraction of CPU power used by its rivals. Theora's performance makes it the ideal choice for video in low-powered devices like the XO laptop from the OLPC project or mobile phones. It is that good.

What if you wanted to share audio or video with your friends? Why, you would have XSPF for that. It is the one playlist format that gets it right. No, seriously. Try compare it with any other. It is no wonder multimedia applications like VLC are using it internally. It's simple, it's pratical, and it does everything one may want from a playlist and more.

We talked about the stuff you and I use, but what about the niche markets? The stuff only a few use? Are you wondering about your graphic designer friend? Then fret not. Until recently, graphic designers were forced to use proprietary formats to work with vector graphics. Now? Now they have SVG, a browser-compatible, scriptable and cool format. Your friend can use it for both simple drawings and complex applications. How complex, you ask? Well, let's mix SVG, Theora and bit of scripting and you get this. Pretty cool, uh?

The formats are here, but they can't make the decision for you. It's you who must decide if you want Open Media or not. Make the world a better place. Support freedom, support quality. Use Open Media, use free formats.

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-18T02:57:39Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Ça y est, vous y êtes! Formats libres, médias ouverts. De beaux mots, de beaux mots mais que signifient-ils pour vous?

Probablement pas grand chose encore, mais écoutez-moi.

Ces mots signifient vidéo de haute qualité (HD). Ils signifient musique de haute qualité dans des fichiers de plus petites tailles. Ils signifient des fichiers de bureautique qu'on peut lire n'importe où, peu importe le système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur. Ils signifient des listes de musique que vous pouvez partager avec qui vous voulez. Plus important : ils signifient la liberté vis â vis des "cadenas" des grandes compagnies.

Oui... les grandes compagnies. Elles veulent cadenasser vos fichiers, vos médias. Essayez de faire une copie de sécurité d'un de VOS films sur DVD. Oh, c'est vrai, cela ne fonctionne pas. C'est ainsi que plusieurs compagnies maintiennent le monopole sur les logiciels et gardent la haute main sur le marché des lecteurs de musique numérique. Au détriment de la liberté de leurs clients. Votre liberté!

Ne préférez-vous pas plutôt supporter des compagnies qui ne vous priveront pas de votre liberté? Cela ne peut se faire que si vous utilisez des formats libres, ainsi ces compagnies seront amenées, forcées par la demande de la clientèle, à vendre des lecteurs et des contenus multimédias qui fonctionnent avec les formats libres. Ne voulez-vous pas être libre d'utiliser vos médias n'importe où, là où vous le désirez? Vous avez certainement entendu parler des GDN (DRM), mais ce n'est que la pointe l'iceberg en matière de formats non-libres.

Ce qui nous préoccupe encore plus c'est que ces formats non-libres pourraient appartenir à une compagnie qui ne permettrait pas qu'ils soientt utilisés ailleurs que sur ses propres produits, ou qu'une telle compagnie demande de payer une licence à toute personne qui voudrait utiliser ses formats non-libres. Par exemple quand vous achetez un film sur DVD, vous payez non-seulement pour le contenu déjà trop cher, mais aussi pour la licence qui vous permet de les écouter. Une petite anecdote, vous vous souvenez de la XBox orignale. Même si elle était équipée d'un lecteur de DVD comme l'était son compétiteur, à la différence de ce dernier, la XBox ne pouvait pas jouer de films sur DVD. Microsoft n'avait pas payé la licence pour le permettre forçant ses clients à acheter un coûteux accessoire qui couvrait, lui, les frais de la dite licence. Ce n'est certainement pas la bonne façon de servir sa clientèle. Et ne parlons pas du MP3. Demandez à Microsoft comment ils se sentent d'avoir à payer des millions en dommages et intérêts à Alcatel-Lucent pour que sa clientèle puisse continuer à utiliser un format qui sonne comme un VHS audio.

Les formats non-libres n'ont d'intérêt que pour ceux qui en détiennent les brevets. La liberté d'éviter de payer des licences inutiles ne devrait pas être prise à la légère.

Pas encore convaincu? Les CD audio ne sont plus à la mode depuis le début du XXIe siècle, c'est ainsi que quelques-uns se sont tournés vers le prochain mode de distribution de la musique : les magasins de musique en ligne. Maintenant imaginez. Il y a une personne, juste un bon gars qui se débat pour donner un bon service en représentant les musiciens en gagnant une commission au passage. C'est un intermédiaire. Comme il n'est pas encore devenu immensément riche, il se trouve qu'il n'arrive pas à payer toutes les licences requises pour vendre la musique de ses musiciens dans des formats non-libres, et il sait bien qu'il ne peut simplement pas la vendre dans des formats libres et ouverts car les clients ne savent pas qu'ils devraient utiliser ces formats libres ou plus simplement qu'ils s'en foutent. Donc, il devra abandonner ou se tourner vers l'illégalité en priant de ne pas se faire prendre.

You — yes you — can avoid this. All you gotta do is use free formats like Vorbis (.ogg) and FLAC for music, instead of MP3 and whatever they try to promote as its successor. Or use Theora (.ogv) for video.

Still not convinced? Okay, back to the subject of freedom and liberty. The concept of Open Media is one that means two things: freedom in the use of the chosen format for any and whatever reason (only possible when you deal with free formats) and freedom to use the content for any and whatever reason (only possible when the content is made available under a free license). To achieve Open Media, a special kind of nirvana to some, a useful tool to others, these two battles to free content must be fought. Free formats and free licenses. And Open Media is only one step for the betterment of humanity.

Does it sound like some hippy bullshit? It's not. It's about leaving a better world for the next generations.

Well, but is it about quality as well as it is about the freedom? Hell yeah.

Public tests show that Vorbis is far superior to MP3 and other more modern lossy formats like Musepack and AAC. Classic, Pop, Rock, any kind of music! And it has multi-channel support! DJs know the power of Vorbis and, thanks to Ogg's streaming capabilities, so do online radio owners.

On the speech front nothing beats Speex. It's powerful, scalable and people use it in such different areas as podcasts, VoIP, audio books, and talking robots. Record a sample of your voice and compare the quality and the file size between a Speex and an MP3 file. The result is staggering. Not only is the Speex file way smaller, it sounds better!

And in the lossless audio front, FLAC is unbeatable. Good compression, low CPU overhead and — blasphemy! — it works on portable players. It's everyone's favorite choice for archiving music digitally. Metallica uses FLAC and so should you.

That covers audio, but what about video? The future will likely hold Dirac, but right now you have Theora. In its early years, Theora has suffered from bad support in tools, which made it look as if it had bad quality. Nothing could be farther from truth. Theora rivals most MPEG-4 formats, it beats Xvid, and it's ready to provide the world with video for everyone for the next five or more years until something better comes along. And that at a fraction of CPU power used by its rivals. Theora's performance makes it the ideal choice for video in low-powered devices like the XO laptop from the OLPC project or mobile phones. It is that good.

What if you wanted to share audio or video with your friends? Why, you would have XSPF for that. It is the one playlist format that gets it right. No, seriously. Try compare it with any other. It is no wonder multimedia applications like VLC are using it internally. It's simple, it's pratical, and it does everything one may want from a playlist and more.

We talked about the stuff you and I use, but what about the niche markets? The stuff only a few use? Are you wondering about your graphic designer friend? Then fret not. Until recently, graphic designers were forced to use proprietary formats to work with vector graphics. Now? Now they have SVG, a browser-compatible, scriptable and cool format. Your friend can use it for both simple drawings and complex applications. How complex, you ask? Well, let's mix SVG, Theora and bit of scripting and you get this. Pretty cool, uh?

The formats are here, but they can't make the decision for you. It's you who must decide if you want Open Media or not. Make the world a better place. Support freedom, support quality. Use Open Media, use free formats.

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-14T02:55:13Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Ça y est, vous y êtes! Formats libres, médias ouverts. De beaux mots, de beaux mots mais que signifient-ils pour vous?

Probablement pas grand chose encore, mais écoutez-moi.

Ces mots signifient vidéo de haute qualité (HD). Ils signifient musique de haute qualité dans des fichiers de plus petites tailles. Ils signifient des fichiers de bureautique qu'on peut lire n'importe où, peu importe le système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur. Ils signifient des listes de musique que vous pouvez partager avec qui vous voulez. Plus important : ils signifient la liberté vis â vis des "cadenas" des grandes compagnies.

Oui... les grandes compagnies. Elles veulent cadenasser vos fichiers, vos médias. Essayez de faire une copie de sécurité d'un de VOS films sur DVD. Oh, c'est vrai, cela ne fonctionne pas. C'est ainsi que plusieurs compagnies maintiennent leur monopole sur les logiciels et gardent la haute main sur le marché des lecteurs. Au détriment de la liberté de leurs clients. Votre liberté!

Ne préférez-vous pas plutôt supporter des compagnies qui ne vous priveront pas de votre liberté? Cela ne peut se faire que si vous utilisez des formats libres, ainsi ces compagnies seront amenés, forcés par la demande de la clientèle, à vendre des lecteurs et des contenus multimédias qui fonctionnent avec les formats libres. Ne voulez-vous pas être libre d'utiliser vos médias n'importe où, là où vous le désirez? Vous avez certainement entendu parler des GDN (DRM), mais ce n'est que la pointe l'iceberg en matière de formats non-libres.

Ce qui nous préoccupe encore plus c'est que ces formats non-libres pourraient appartenir à une compagnie qui ne permettrait pas qu'ils soientt utilisés ailleurs que sur ses propres produits, ou qu'une telle compagnie demande de payer une licence à toute personne qui voudrait utiliser ses formats non-libres. Par exemple quand vous achetez un film sur DVD, vous payez non-seulement pour le contenu déjà trop cher, mais aussi pour la licence qui vous permet de les écouter. Une petite anecdote, vous vous souvenez de la XBox orignale. Même si elle était équipé d'un lecteur de DVD comme l'était son compétiteur, à la différence de ce dernier, la XBox ne pouvait pas jouer de film sur DVD. Microsoft n'avait pas payé la licence pour le permettre forcant ses clients à acheter un coûteux accessoire qui couvrait, lui, les frais de la dite licence. Ce n'est certainement pas la bonne façon de servir sa clientèle. Et ne parlons pas du MP3. Demandez à Microsoft comment ils se sentent d'avoir à payer des millions en dommages et intérêts à Alcatel-Lucent pour que sa clientèle puisse continuer à utiliser un format qui sonne comme un VHS audio.

Les formats non-libres n'ont d'intérêt que pour ceux qui en détiennent les brevets. La liberté d'éviter de payer des licences inutiles ne devrait pas être prise à la légère.

Still not convinced? Audio CDs have arguably become out of fashion with the turn of the century, so a few have moved to the next distribution method: online stores for digital music. Now, imagine. There's this guy, he's just a bloke struggling to make a good service out of representing musicians and gain a commission while at it. He's the middle man. But since he has not yet become filthy rich, it turns out he can't pay all the licenses required to sell music in non-free formats, and he knows he can't just sell them in free formats, because people don't know they should use free formats or just don't care. So he either gives up or goes illegal and prays nobody notices.

You — yes you — can avoid this. All you gotta do is use free formats like Vorbis (.ogg) and FLAC for music, instead of MP3 and whatever they try to promote as its successor. Or use Theora (.ogv) for video.

Still not convinced? Okay, back to the subject of freedom and liberty. The concept of Open Media is one that means two things: freedom in the use of the chosen format for any and whatever reason (only possible when you deal with free formats) and freedom to use the content for any and whatever reason (only possible when the content is made available under a free license). To achieve Open Media, a special kind of nirvana to some, a useful tool to others, these two battles to free content must be fought. Free formats and free licenses. And Open Media is only one step for the betterment of humanity.

Does it sound like some hippy bullshit? It's not. It's about leaving a better world for the next generations.

Well, but is it about quality as well as it is about the freedom? Hell yeah.

Public tests show that Vorbis is far superior to MP3 and other more modern lossy formats like Musepack and AAC. Classic, Pop, Rock, any kind of music! And it has multi-channel support! DJs know the power of Vorbis and, thanks to Ogg's streaming capabilities, so do online radio owners.

On the speech front nothing beats Speex. It's powerful, scalable and people use it in such different areas as podcasts, VoIP, audio books, and talking robots. Record a sample of your voice and compare the quality and the file size between a Speex and an MP3 file. The result is staggering. Not only is the Speex file way smaller, it sounds better!

And in the lossless audio front, FLAC is unbeatable. Good compression, low CPU overhead and — blasphemy! — it works on portable players. It's everyone's favorite choice for archiving music digitally. Metallica uses FLAC and so should you.

That covers audio, but what about video? The future will likely hold Dirac, but right now you have Theora. In its early years, Theora has suffered from bad support in tools, which made it look as if it had bad quality. Nothing could be farther from truth. Theora rivals most MPEG-4 formats, it beats Xvid, and it's ready to provide the world with video for everyone for the next five or more years until something better comes along. And that at a fraction of CPU power used by its rivals. Theora's performance makes it the ideal choice for video in low-powered devices like the XO laptop from the OLPC project or mobile phones. It is that good.

What if you wanted to share audio or video with your friends? Why, you would have XSPF for that. It is the one playlist format that gets it right. No, seriously. Try compare it with any other. It is no wonder multimedia applications like VLC are using it internally. It's simple, it's pratical, and it does everything one may want from a playlist and more.

We talked about the stuff you and I use, but what about the niche markets? The stuff only a few use? Are you wondering about your graphic designer friend? Then fret not. Until recently, graphic designers were forced to use proprietary formats to work with vector graphics. Now? Now they have SVG, a browser-compatible, scriptable and cool format. Your friend can use it for both simple drawings and complex applications. How complex, you ask? Well, let's mix SVG, Theora and bit of scripting and you get this. Pretty cool, uh?

The formats are here, but they can't make the decision for you. It's you who must decide if you want Open Media or not. Make the world a better place. Support freedom, support quality. Use Open Media, use free formats.

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-14T02:49:45Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Ça y est, vous y êtes! Formats libres, médias ouverts. De beaux mots, de beaux mots mais que signifient-ils pour vous?

Probablement pas grand chose encore, mais écoutez-moi.

Ces mots signifient vidéo de haute qualité (HD). Ils signifient musique de haute qualité dans des fichiers de plus petites tailles. Ils signifient des fichiers de bureautique qu'on peut lire n'importe où, peu importe le système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur. Ils signifient des listes de musique que vous pouvez partager avec qui vous voulez. Plus important : ils signifient la liberté vis â vis des "cadenas" des grandes compagnies.

Oui... les grandes compagnies. Elles veulent cadenasser vos fichiers, vos médias. Essayez de faire une copie de sécurité d'un de VOS films sur DVD. Oh, c'est vrai, cela ne fonctionne pas. C'est ainsi que plusieurs compagnies maintiennent leur monopole sur les logiciels et gardent la haute main sur le marché des lecteurs. Au détriment de la liberté de leurs clients. Votre liberté!

Ne préférez-vous pas plutôt supporter des compagnies qui ne vous priveront pas de votre liberté? Cela ne peut se faire que si vous utilisez des formats libres, ainsi ces compagnies seront amenés, forcés par la demande de la clientèle, à vendre des lecteurs et des contenus multimédias qui fonctionnent avec les formats libres. Ne voulez-vous pas être libre d'utiliser vos médias n'importe où, là où vous le désirez? Vous avez certainement entendu parler des GDN (DRM), mais ce n'est que la pointe l'iceberg en matière de formats non-libres.

Ce qui nous préoccupe encore plus c'est que ces formats non-libres pourraient appartenir à une compagnie qui ne permettrait pas qu'il soit utilisé ailleurs que sur ses propres produits, ou qu'une telle compagnie demande de payer une licence à toute personne qui voudrait utiliser ses formats non-libres. Par exemple quand vous achetez un film sur DVD, vous payez non-seulement pour le contenu déjà trop cher, mais aussi pour la licence qui vous permet de les écouter. Une petite anecdote, vous vous souvenez de la XBox orignale. Même si elle était équipé d'un lecteur de DVD comme l'était son compétiteur, à la différence de ce dernier, la XBox ne pouvait pas jouer de film sur DVD. Microsoft n'avait pas payé la licence pour le permettre forcant ses clients à acheter un coûteux accessoire qui couvrait, lui, les frais de la dite licence. Ce n'est certainement pas la bonne façon de servir sa clientèle. Et ne parlons pas du MP3. Demandez à Microsoft comment ils se sentent d'avoir à payer des millions en dommages et intérêts à Alcatel-Lucent pour que sa clientèle puisse continuer à utiliser un format qui sonne comme un VHS audio.

Non-free formats are of the interest of no one but the people who own patents on them. The freedom to spare the money to pay for unnecessary licenses should not be taken lightly.

Still not convinced? Audio CDs have arguably become out of fashion with the turn of the century, so a few have moved to the next distribution method: online stores for digital music. Now, imagine. There's this guy, he's just a bloke struggling to make a good service out of representing musicians and gain a commission while at it. He's the middle man. But since he has not yet become filthy rich, it turns out he can't pay all the licenses required to sell music in non-free formats, and he knows he can't just sell them in free formats, because people don't know they should use free formats or just don't care. So he either gives up or goes illegal and prays nobody notices.

You — yes you — can avoid this. All you gotta do is use free formats like Vorbis (.ogg) and FLAC for music, instead of MP3 and whatever they try to promote as its successor. Or use Theora (.ogv) for video.

Still not convinced? Okay, back to the subject of freedom and liberty. The concept of Open Media is one that means two things: freedom in the use of the chosen format for any and whatever reason (only possible when you deal with free formats) and freedom to use the content for any and whatever reason (only possible when the content is made available under a free license). To achieve Open Media, a special kind of nirvana to some, a useful tool to others, these two battles to free content must be fought. Free formats and free licenses. And Open Media is only one step for the betterment of humanity.

Does it sound like some hippy bullshit? It's not. It's about leaving a better world for the next generations.

Well, but is it about quality as well as it is about the freedom? Hell yeah.

Public tests show that Vorbis is far superior to MP3 and other more modern lossy formats like Musepack and AAC. Classic, Pop, Rock, any kind of music! And it has multi-channel support! DJs know the power of Vorbis and, thanks to Ogg's streaming capabilities, so do online radio owners.

On the speech front nothing beats Speex. It's powerful, scalable and people use it in such different areas as podcasts, VoIP, audio books, and talking robots. Record a sample of your voice and compare the quality and the file size between a Speex and an MP3 file. The result is staggering. Not only is the Speex file way smaller, it sounds better!

And in the lossless audio front, FLAC is unbeatable. Good compression, low CPU overhead and — blasphemy! — it works on portable players. It's everyone's favorite choice for archiving music digitally. Metallica uses FLAC and so should you.

That covers audio, but what about video? The future will likely hold Dirac, but right now you have Theora. In its early years, Theora has suffered from bad support in tools, which made it look as if it had bad quality. Nothing could be farther from truth. Theora rivals most MPEG-4 formats, it beats Xvid, and it's ready to provide the world with video for everyone for the next five or more years until something better comes along. And that at a fraction of CPU power used by its rivals. Theora's performance makes it the ideal choice for video in low-powered devices like the XO laptop from the OLPC project or mobile phones. It is that good.

What if you wanted to share audio or video with your friends? Why, you would have XSPF for that. It is the one playlist format that gets it right. No, seriously. Try compare it with any other. It is no wonder multimedia applications like VLC are using it internally. It's simple, it's pratical, and it does everything one may want from a playlist and more.

We talked about the stuff you and I use, but what about the niche markets? The stuff only a few use? Are you wondering about your graphic designer friend? Then fret not. Until recently, graphic designers were forced to use proprietary formats to work with vector graphics. Now? Now they have SVG, a browser-compatible, scriptable and cool format. Your friend can use it for both simple drawings and complex applications. How complex, you ask? Well, let's mix SVG, Theora and bit of scripting and you get this. Pretty cool, uh?

The formats are here, but they can't make the decision for you. It's you who must decide if you want Open Media or not. Make the world a better place. Support freedom, support quality. Use Open Media, use free formats.

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-13T02:57:41Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Ça y est, vous y êtes! Formats libres, médias ouverts. De beaux mots, de beaux mots mais que signifient-ils pour vous?

Probablement pas grand chose encore, mais écoutez-moi.

Ces mots signifient vidéo de haute qualité (HD). Ils signifient musique de haute qualité dans des fichiers de plus petites tailles. Ils signifient des fichiers de bureautique qu'on peut lire n'importe où, peu importe le système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur. Ils signifient des listes de musique que vous pouvez partager avec qui vous voulez. Plus important : ils signifient la liberté vis â vis des "cadenas" des grandes compagnies.

Oui... les grandes compagnies. Elles veulent cadenasser vos fichiers, vos médias. Essayez de faire une copie de sécurité d'un de VOS films sur DVD. Oh, c'est vrai, cela ne fonctionne pas. C'est ainsi que plusieurs compagnies maintiennent leur monopole sur les logiciels et gardent la haute main sur le marché des lecteurs. Au détriment de la liberté de leurs clients. Votre liberté!

Ne préférez-vous pas plutôt supporter des compagnies qui ne vous priveront pas de votre liberté? Cela ne peut se faire que si vous utilisez des formats libres, ainsi ces compagnies seront amenés, forcés par la demande de la clientèle, à vendre des lecteurs et des contenus multimédias qui fonctionnent avec les formats libres. Ne voulez-vous pas être libre d'utiliser vos médias n'importe où, là où vous le désirez? Vous avez certainement entendu parler des GDN (DRM), mais ce n'est que la pointe l'iceberg en matière de formats non-libres.

A much bigger concern is that non-free formats either belong to a company who will not allow them to be used anywhere but in their own products, or said company demands that everyone pays a license to use those formats. For instance, when you buy a DVD film you are paying not only for the already over-priced content, but also for the license to use it. Here's another anedocte: perhaps you remember the original Xbox. Although it had a DVD drive like a certain other competitor, unlike it, the Xbox could not play DVD films. Microsoft avoided paying such license by forcing its consumers to buy an expensive remote control to cover the license fees. That's certainly not how you serve your consumers. And let me not even get started on MP3. Ask Microsoft how they feel about paying billions in damages to Alcatel-Lucent so that people may continue to use a format that sounds like VHS audio.

Non-free formats are of the interest of no one but the people who own patents on them. The freedom to spare the money to pay for unnecessary licenses should not be taken lightly.

Still not convinced? Audio CDs have arguably become out of fashion with the turn of the century, so a few have moved to the next distribution method: online stores for digital music. Now, imagine. There's this guy, he's just a bloke struggling to make a good service out of representing musicians and gain a commission while at it. He's the middle man. But since he has not yet become filthy rich, it turns out he can't pay all the licenses required to sell music in non-free formats, and he knows he can't just sell them in free formats, because people don't know they should use free formats or just don't care. So he either gives up or goes illegal and prays nobody notices.

You — yes you — can avoid this. All you gotta do is use free formats like Vorbis (.ogg) and FLAC for music, instead of MP3 and whatever they try to promote as its successor. Or use Theora (.ogv) for video.

Still not convinced? Okay, back to the subject of freedom and liberty. The concept of Open Media is one that means two things: freedom in the use of the chosen format for any and whatever reason (only possible when you deal with free formats) and freedom to use the content for any and whatever reason (only possible when the content is made available under a free license). To achieve Open Media, a special kind of nirvana to some, a useful tool to others, these two battles to free content must be fought. Free formats and free licenses. And Open Media is only one step for the betterment of humanity.

Does it sound like some hippy bullshit? It's not. It's about leaving a better world for the next generations.

Well, but is it about quality as well as it is about the freedom? Hell yeah.

Public tests show that Vorbis is far superior to MP3 and other more modern lossy formats like Musepack and AAC. Classic, Pop, Rock, any kind of music! And it has multi-channel support! DJs know the power of Vorbis and, thanks to Ogg's streaming capabilities, so do online radio owners.

On the speech front nothing beats Speex. It's powerful, scalable and people use it in such different areas as podcasts, VoIP, audio books, and talking robots. Record a sample of your voice and compare the quality and the file size between a Speex and an MP3 file. The result is staggering. Not only is the Speex file way smaller, it sounds better!

And in the lossless audio front, FLAC is unbeatable. Good compression, low CPU overhead and — blasphemy! — it works on portable players. It's everyone's favorite choice for archiving music digitally. Metallica uses FLAC and so should you.

That covers audio, but what about video? The future will likely hold Dirac, but right now you have Theora. In its early years, Theora has suffered from bad support in tools, which made it look as if it had bad quality. Nothing could be farther from truth. Theora rivals most MPEG-4 formats, it beats Xvid, and it's ready to provide the world with video for everyone for the next five or more years until something better comes along. And that at a fraction of CPU power used by its rivals. Theora's performance makes it the ideal choice for video in low-powered devices like the XO laptop from the OLPC project or mobile phones. It is that good.

What if you wanted to share audio or video with your friends? Why, you would have XSPF for that. It is the one playlist format that gets it right. No, seriously. Try compare it with any other. It is no wonder multimedia applications like VLC are using it internally. It's simple, it's pratical, and it does everything one may want from a playlist and more.

We talked about the stuff you and I use, but what about the niche markets? The stuff only a few use? Are you wondering about your graphic designer friend? Then fret not. Until recently, graphic designers were forced to use proprietary formats to work with vector graphics. Now? Now they have SVG, a browser-compatible, scriptable and cool format. Your friend can use it for both simple drawings and complex applications. How complex, you ask? Well, let's mix SVG, Theora and bit of scripting and you get this. Pretty cool, uh?

The formats are here, but they can't make the decision for you. It's you who must decide if you want Open Media or not. Make the world a better place. Support freedom, support quality. Use Open Media, use free formats.

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-13T02:56:15Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Ça y est, vous y êtes! Formats libres, médias ouverts. De beaux mots, de beaux mots mais que signifient-ils pour vous?

Probablement pas grand chose encore, mais écoutez-moi.

Ces mots signifient vidéo de haute qualité (HD). Ils signifient musique de haute qualité dans des fichiers de plus petites tailles. Ils signifient des fichiers de bureautique qu'on peut lire n'importe où, peu importe le système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur. Ils signifient des listes de musique que vous pouvez partager avec qui vous voulez. Plus important : ils signifient la liberté vis â vis des "cadenas" des grandes compagnies.

Oui... les grandes compagnies. Elles veulent cadenasser vos fichiers, vos médias. Essayez de faire une copie de sécurité d'un de VOS films sur DVD. Oh, c'est vrai, cela ne fonctionne pas. C'est ainsi que plusieurs compagnies maintiennent leur monopole sur les logiciels et gardent la haute main sur le marché des lecteurs. Au détriment de la liberté de leurs clients. Votre liberté!

Ne préférez-vous pas plutôt supporter des compagnies qui ne vous priveront pas de votre liberté? Cela ne peut se faire que si vous utilisez des formats libres, ainsi ces compagnies seront amenés, forcés par la demande de la clientèle, à vendre des lecteurs et des contenants qui fonctionnent avec les formats libres. Ne voulez-vous pas être libre d'utiliser vos médias n'importe où, là où vous le désirez? Vous avez certainement entendu parler des GDN (DRM), mais ce n'est que la pointe l'iceberg en matière de formats non-libres.

A much bigger concern is that non-free formats either belong to a company who will not allow them to be used anywhere but in their own products, or said company demands that everyone pays a license to use those formats. For instance, when you buy a DVD film you are paying not only for the already over-priced content, but also for the license to use it. Here's another anedocte: perhaps you remember the original Xbox. Although it had a DVD drive like a certain other competitor, unlike it, the Xbox could not play DVD films. Microsoft avoided paying such license by forcing its consumers to buy an expensive remote control to cover the license fees. That's certainly not how you serve your consumers. And let me not even get started on MP3. Ask Microsoft how they feel about paying billions in damages to Alcatel-Lucent so that people may continue to use a format that sounds like VHS audio.

Non-free formats are of the interest of no one but the people who own patents on them. The freedom to spare the money to pay for unnecessary licenses should not be taken lightly.

Still not convinced? Audio CDs have arguably become out of fashion with the turn of the century, so a few have moved to the next distribution method: online stores for digital music. Now, imagine. There's this guy, he's just a bloke struggling to make a good service out of representing musicians and gain a commission while at it. He's the middle man. But since he has not yet become filthy rich, it turns out he can't pay all the licenses required to sell music in non-free formats, and he knows he can't just sell them in free formats, because people don't know they should use free formats or just don't care. So he either gives up or goes illegal and prays nobody notices.

You — yes you — can avoid this. All you gotta do is use free formats like Vorbis (.ogg) and FLAC for music, instead of MP3 and whatever they try to promote as its successor. Or use Theora (.ogv) for video.

Still not convinced? Okay, back to the subject of freedom and liberty. The concept of Open Media is one that means two things: freedom in the use of the chosen format for any and whatever reason (only possible when you deal with free formats) and freedom to use the content for any and whatever reason (only possible when the content is made available under a free license). To achieve Open Media, a special kind of nirvana to some, a useful tool to others, these two battles to free content must be fought. Free formats and free licenses. And Open Media is only one step for the betterment of humanity.

Does it sound like some hippy bullshit? It's not. It's about leaving a better world for the next generations.

Well, but is it about quality as well as it is about the freedom? Hell yeah.

Public tests show that Vorbis is far superior to MP3 and other more modern lossy formats like Musepack and AAC. Classic, Pop, Rock, any kind of music! And it has multi-channel support! DJs know the power of Vorbis and, thanks to Ogg's streaming capabilities, so do online radio owners.

On the speech front nothing beats Speex. It's powerful, scalable and people use it in such different areas as podcasts, VoIP, audio books, and talking robots. Record a sample of your voice and compare the quality and the file size between a Speex and an MP3 file. The result is staggering. Not only is the Speex file way smaller, it sounds better!

And in the lossless audio front, FLAC is unbeatable. Good compression, low CPU overhead and — blasphemy! — it works on portable players. It's everyone's favorite choice for archiving music digitally. Metallica uses FLAC and so should you.

That covers audio, but what about video? The future will likely hold Dirac, but right now you have Theora. In its early years, Theora has suffered from bad support in tools, which made it look as if it had bad quality. Nothing could be farther from truth. Theora rivals most MPEG-4 formats, it beats Xvid, and it's ready to provide the world with video for everyone for the next five or more years until something better comes along. And that at a fraction of CPU power used by its rivals. Theora's performance makes it the ideal choice for video in low-powered devices like the XO laptop from the OLPC project or mobile phones. It is that good.

What if you wanted to share audio or video with your friends? Why, you would have XSPF for that. It is the one playlist format that gets it right. No, seriously. Try compare it with any other. It is no wonder multimedia applications like VLC are using it internally. It's simple, it's pratical, and it does everything one may want from a playlist and more.

We talked about the stuff you and I use, but what about the niche markets? The stuff only a few use? Are you wondering about your graphic designer friend? Then fret not. Until recently, graphic designers were forced to use proprietary formats to work with vector graphics. Now? Now they have SVG, a browser-compatible, scriptable and cool format. Your friend can use it for both simple drawings and complex applications. How complex, you ask? Well, let's mix SVG, Theora and bit of scripting and you get this. Pretty cool, uh?

The formats are here, but they can't make the decision for you. It's you who must decide if you want Open Media or not. Make the world a better place. Support freedom, support quality. Use Open Media, use free formats.

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-13T02:31:54Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Ça y est, vous y êtes! Formats libres, médias ouverts. De beaux mots, de beaux mots mais que signifient-ils pour vous?

Probablement pas grand chose encore, mais écoutez-moi.

Ces mots signifient vidéo de haute qualité (HD). Ils signifient musique de haute qualité dans des fichiers de plus petites tailles. Ils signifient des fichiers de bureautique qu'on peut lire n'importe où, peu importe le système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur. Ils signifient des listes de musique que vous pouvez partager avec qui vous voulez. Plus important : ils signifient la liberté vis â vis des "cadenas" des grandes compagnies.

Oui... les grandes compagnies. Elles veulent cadenasser vos fichiers, vos médias. Essayez de faire une copie de sécurité d'un de VOS films sur DVD. Oh, c'est vrai, cela ne fonctionne pas. C'est ainsi que plusieurs compagnies maintiennent leur monopole sur les logiciels et gardent la haute main sur le marché des lecteurs. Au détriment de la liberté de leurs clients. Votre liberté!

Wouldn't you rather support companies that won't take that freedom away? That can only happen if you use free formats, so the companies are forced by demand to sell open media and players that work with free formats. Don't you wish to be free to use your media anywhere you want? Maybe you heard of DRM already, but that is only the tip of the iceberg of non-free formats.

A much bigger concern is that non-free formats either belong to a company who will not allow them to be used anywhere but in their own products, or said company demands that everyone pays a license to use those formats. For instance, when you buy a DVD film you are paying not only for the already over-priced content, but also for the license to use it. Here's another anedocte: perhaps you remember the original Xbox. Although it had a DVD drive like a certain other competitor, unlike it, the Xbox could not play DVD films. Microsoft avoided paying such license by forcing its consumers to buy an expensive remote control to cover the license fees. That's certainly not how you serve your consumers. And let me not even get started on MP3. Ask Microsoft how they feel about paying billions in damages to Alcatel-Lucent so that people may continue to use a format that sounds like VHS audio.

Non-free formats are of the interest of no one but the people who own patents on them. The freedom to spare the money to pay for unnecessary licenses should not be taken lightly.

Still not convinced? Audio CDs have arguably become out of fashion with the turn of the century, so a few have moved to the next distribution method: online stores for digital music. Now, imagine. There's this guy, he's just a bloke struggling to make a good service out of representing musicians and gain a commission while at it. He's the middle man. But since he has not yet become filthy rich, it turns out he can't pay all the licenses required to sell music in non-free formats, and he knows he can't just sell them in free formats, because people don't know they should use free formats or just don't care. So he either gives up or goes illegal and prays nobody notices.

You — yes you — can avoid this. All you gotta do is use free formats like Vorbis (.ogg) and FLAC for music, instead of MP3 and whatever they try to promote as its successor. Or use Theora (.ogv) for video.

Still not convinced? Okay, back to the subject of freedom and liberty. The concept of Open Media is one that means two things: freedom in the use of the chosen format for any and whatever reason (only possible when you deal with free formats) and freedom to use the content for any and whatever reason (only possible when the content is made available under a free license). To achieve Open Media, a special kind of nirvana to some, a useful tool to others, these two battles to free content must be fought. Free formats and free licenses. And Open Media is only one step for the betterment of humanity.

Does it sound like some hippy bullshit? It's not. It's about leaving a better world for the next generations.

Well, but is it about quality as well as it is about the freedom? Hell yeah.

Public tests show that Vorbis is far superior to MP3 and other more modern lossy formats like Musepack and AAC. Classic, Pop, Rock, any kind of music! And it has multi-channel support! DJs know the power of Vorbis and, thanks to Ogg's streaming capabilities, so do online radio owners.

On the speech front nothing beats Speex. It's powerful, scalable and people use it in such different areas as podcasts, VoIP, audio books, and talking robots. Record a sample of your voice and compare the quality and the file size between a Speex and an MP3 file. The result is staggering. Not only is the Speex file way smaller, it sounds better!

And in the lossless audio front, FLAC is unbeatable. Good compression, low CPU overhead and — blasphemy! — it works on portable players. It's everyone's favorite choice for archiving music digitally. Metallica uses FLAC and so should you.

That covers audio, but what about video? The future will likely hold Dirac, but right now you have Theora. In its early years, Theora has suffered from bad support in tools, which made it look as if it had bad quality. Nothing could be farther from truth. Theora rivals most MPEG-4 formats, it beats Xvid, and it's ready to provide the world with video for everyone for the next five or more years until something better comes along. And that at a fraction of CPU power used by its rivals. Theora's performance makes it the ideal choice for video in low-powered devices like the XO laptop from the OLPC project or mobile phones. It is that good.

What if you wanted to share audio or video with your friends? Why, you would have XSPF for that. It is the one playlist format that gets it right. No, seriously. Try compare it with any other. It is no wonder multimedia applications like VLC are using it internally. It's simple, it's pratical, and it does everything one may want from a playlist and more.

We talked about the stuff you and I use, but what about the niche markets? The stuff only a few use? Are you wondering about your graphic designer friend? Then fret not. Until recently, graphic designers were forced to use proprietary formats to work with vector graphics. Now? Now they have SVG, a browser-compatible, scriptable and cool format. Your friend can use it for both simple drawings and complex applications. How complex, you ask? Well, let's mix SVG, Theora and bit of scripting and you get this. Pretty cool, uh?

The formats are here, but they can't make the decision for you. It's you who must decide if you want Open Media or not. Make the world a better place. Support freedom, support quality. Use Open Media, use free formats.

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-12T02:41:15Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Ça y est, vous y êtes! Formats libres, médias ouverts. De beaux mots, de beaux mots mais que signifient-ils pour vous?

Probablement pas grand chose encore, mais écoutez-moi.

Ces mots signifient vidéo de haute qualité (HD). Ils signifient musique de haute qualité dans des fichiers de plus petites tailles. Ils signifient des fichiers de bureautique qu'on peut lire n'importe où, peu importe le système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur. Ils signifient des listes de musique que vous pouvez partager avec qui vous voulez. Plus important : ils signifient la liberté vis â vis des "cadenas" des grandes compagnies.

Yes... corporations. They want to lock your files, your media. Try to backup a DVD film of yours. Oh, that's right, it doesn't work. That's how many of them maintain their software monopoly and their hold on the gadget market. At the cost of the freedom of their customers. Your freedom.

Wouldn't you rather support companies that won't take that freedom away? That can only happen if you use free formats, so the companies are forced by demand to sell open media and players that work with free formats. Don't you wish to be free to use your media anywhere you want? Maybe you heard of DRM already, but that is only the tip of the iceberg of non-free formats.

A much bigger concern is that non-free formats either belong to a company who will not allow them to be used anywhere but in their own products, or said company demands that everyone pays a license to use those formats. For instance, when you buy a DVD film you are paying not only for the already over-priced content, but also for the license to use it. Here's another anedocte: perhaps you remember the original Xbox. Although it had a DVD drive like a certain other competitor, unlike it, the Xbox could not play DVD films. Microsoft avoided paying such license by forcing its consumers to buy an expensive remote control to cover the license fees. That's certainly not how you serve your consumers. And let me not even get started on MP3. Ask Microsoft how they feel about paying billions in damages to Alcatel-Lucent so that people may continue to use a format that sounds like VHS audio.

Non-free formats are of the interest of no one but the people who own patents on them. The freedom to spare the money to pay for unnecessary licenses should not be taken lightly.

Still not convinced? Audio CDs have arguably become out of fashion with the turn of the century, so a few have moved to the next distribution method: online stores for digital music. Now, imagine. There's this guy, he's just a bloke struggling to make a good service out of representing musicians and gain a commission while at it. He's the middle man. But since he has not yet become filthy rich, it turns out he can't pay all the licenses required to sell music in non-free formats, and he knows he can't just sell them in free formats, because people don't know they should use free formats or just don't care. So he either gives up or goes illegal and prays nobody notices.

You — yes you — can avoid this. All you gotta do is use free formats like Vorbis (.ogg) and FLAC for music, instead of MP3 and whatever they try to promote as its successor. Or use Theora (.ogv) for video.

Still not convinced? Okay, back to the subject of freedom and liberty. The concept of Open Media is one that means two things: freedom in the use of the chosen format for any and whatever reason (only possible when you deal with free formats) and freedom to use the content for any and whatever reason (only possible when the content is made available under a free license). To achieve Open Media, a special kind of nirvana to some, a useful tool to others, these two battles to free content must be fought. Free formats and free licenses. And Open Media is only one step for the betterment of humanity.

Does it sound like some hippy bullshit? It's not. It's about leaving a better world for the next generations.

Well, but is it about quality as well as it is about the freedom? Hell yeah.

Public tests show that Vorbis is far superior to MP3 and other more modern lossy formats like Musepack and AAC. Classic, Pop, Rock, any kind of music! And it has multi-channel support! DJs know the power of Vorbis and, thanks to Ogg's streaming capabilities, so do online radio owners.

On the speech front nothing beats Speex. It's powerful, scalable and people use it in such different areas as podcasts, VoIP, audio books, and talking robots. Record a sample of your voice and compare the quality and the file size between a Speex and an MP3 file. The result is staggering. Not only is the Speex file way smaller, it sounds better!

And in the lossless audio front, FLAC is unbeatable. Good compression, low CPU overhead and — blasphemy! — it works on portable players. It's everyone's favorite choice for archiving music digitally. Metallica uses FLAC and so should you.

That covers audio, but what about video? The future will likely hold Dirac, but right now you have Theora. In its early years, Theora has suffered from bad support in tools, which made it look as if it had bad quality. Nothing could be farther from truth. Theora rivals most MPEG-4 formats, it beats Xvid, and it's ready to provide the world with video for everyone for the next five or more years until something better comes along. And that at a fraction of CPU power used by its rivals. Theora's performance makes it the ideal choice for video in low-powered devices like the XO laptop from the OLPC project or mobile phones. It is that good.

What if you wanted to share audio or video with your friends? Why, you would have XSPF for that. It is the one playlist format that gets it right. No, seriously. Try compare it with any other. It is no wonder multimedia applications like VLC are using it internally. It's simple, it's pratical, and it does everything one may want from a playlist and more.

We talked about the stuff you and I use, but what about the niche markets? The stuff only a few use? Are you wondering about your graphic designer friend? Then fret not. Until recently, graphic designers were forced to use proprietary formats to work with vector graphics. Now? Now they have SVG, a browser-compatible, scriptable and cool format. Your friend can use it for both simple drawings and complex applications. How complex, you ask? Well, let's mix SVG, Theora and bit of scripting and you get this. Pretty cool, uh?

The formats are here, but they can't make the decision for you. It's you who must decide if you want Open Media or not. Make the world a better place. Support freedom, support quality. Use Open Media, use free formats.

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-12T02:40:13Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Ça y est, vous y êtes! Formats livre, médias ouverts. De beaux mots, de beaux mots mais que signifient-ils pour vous?

Probablement pas grand chose encore, mais écoutez-moi.

Ces mots signifient vidéo de haute qualité (HD). Ils signifient, musique de haute qualité dans des fichiers de plus petites tailles. Ils signifient des fichiers de bureautique qu'on peut lire n'importe où, peu importe le système d'exploitation de l'ordinateur. Ils signifient des listes de musique que vous pouvez partager avec qui vous voulez. Plus important : ils signifient la liberté vis â vis des "cadenas" des grandes compagnies.

Yes... corporations. They want to lock your files, your media. Try to backup a DVD film of yours. Oh, that's right, it doesn't work. That's how many of them maintain their software monopoly and their hold on the gadget market. At the cost of the freedom of their customers. Your freedom.

Wouldn't you rather support companies that won't take that freedom away? That can only happen if you use free formats, so the companies are forced by demand to sell open media and players that work with free formats. Don't you wish to be free to use your media anywhere you want? Maybe you heard of DRM already, but that is only the tip of the iceberg of non-free formats.

A much bigger concern is that non-free formats either belong to a company who will not allow them to be used anywhere but in their own products, or said company demands that everyone pays a license to use those formats. For instance, when you buy a DVD film you are paying not only for the already over-priced content, but also for the license to use it. Here's another anedocte: perhaps you remember the original Xbox. Although it had a DVD drive like a certain other competitor, unlike it, the Xbox could not play DVD films. Microsoft avoided paying such license by forcing its consumers to buy an expensive remote control to cover the license fees. That's certainly not how you serve your consumers. And let me not even get started on MP3. Ask Microsoft how they feel about paying billions in damages to Alcatel-Lucent so that people may continue to use a format that sounds like VHS audio.

Non-free formats are of the interest of no one but the people who own patents on them. The freedom to spare the money to pay for unnecessary licenses should not be taken lightly.

Still not convinced? Audio CDs have arguably become out of fashion with the turn of the century, so a few have moved to the next distribution method: online stores for digital music. Now, imagine. There's this guy, he's just a bloke struggling to make a good service out of representing musicians and gain a commission while at it. He's the middle man. But since he has not yet become filthy rich, it turns out he can't pay all the licenses required to sell music in non-free formats, and he knows he can't just sell them in free formats, because people don't know they should use free formats or just don't care. So he either gives up or goes illegal and prays nobody notices.

You — yes you — can avoid this. All you gotta do is use free formats like Vorbis (.ogg) and FLAC for music, instead of MP3 and whatever they try to promote as its successor. Or use Theora (.ogv) for video.

Still not convinced? Okay, back to the subject of freedom and liberty. The concept of Open Media is one that means two things: freedom in the use of the chosen format for any and whatever reason (only possible when you deal with free formats) and freedom to use the content for any and whatever reason (only possible when the content is made available under a free license). To achieve Open Media, a special kind of nirvana to some, a useful tool to others, these two battles to free content must be fought. Free formats and free licenses. And Open Media is only one step for the betterment of humanity.

Does it sound like some hippy bullshit? It's not. It's about leaving a better world for the next generations.

Well, but is it about quality as well as it is about the freedom? Hell yeah.

Public tests show that Vorbis is far superior to MP3 and other more modern lossy formats like Musepack and AAC. Classic, Pop, Rock, any kind of music! And it has multi-channel support! DJs know the power of Vorbis and, thanks to Ogg's streaming capabilities, so do online radio owners.

On the speech front nothing beats Speex. It's powerful, scalable and people use it in such different areas as podcasts, VoIP, audio books, and talking robots. Record a sample of your voice and compare the quality and the file size between a Speex and an MP3 file. The result is staggering. Not only is the Speex file way smaller, it sounds better!

And in the lossless audio front, FLAC is unbeatable. Good compression, low CPU overhead and — blasphemy! — it works on portable players. It's everyone's favorite choice for archiving music digitally. Metallica uses FLAC and so should you.

That covers audio, but what about video? The future will likely hold Dirac, but right now you have Theora. In its early years, Theora has suffered from bad support in tools, which made it look as if it had bad quality. Nothing could be farther from truth. Theora rivals most MPEG-4 formats, it beats Xvid, and it's ready to provide the world with video for everyone for the next five or more years until something better comes along. And that at a fraction of CPU power used by its rivals. Theora's performance makes it the ideal choice for video in low-powered devices like the XO laptop from the OLPC project or mobile phones. It is that good.

What if you wanted to share audio or video with your friends? Why, you would have XSPF for that. It is the one playlist format that gets it right. No, seriously. Try compare it with any other. It is no wonder multimedia applications like VLC are using it internally. It's simple, it's pratical, and it does everything one may want from a playlist and more.

We talked about the stuff you and I use, but what about the niche markets? The stuff only a few use? Are you wondering about your graphic designer friend? Then fret not. Until recently, graphic designers were forced to use proprietary formats to work with vector graphics. Now? Now they have SVG, a browser-compatible, scriptable and cool format. Your friend can use it for both simple drawings and complex applications. How complex, you ask? Well, let's mix SVG, Theora and bit of scripting and you get this. Pretty cool, uh?

The formats are here, but they can't make the decision for you. It's you who must decide if you want Open Media or not. Make the world a better place. Support freedom, support quality. Use Open Media, use free formats.

Spread Open Media/fr/It's about the quality, it's about the freedom

2008-03-12T02:29:19Z

Acotte:

== '''Page en cours de traduction par André Cotte''' ==

Titre francais = '''Il s'agit de qualité, il s'agit de liberté'''

Spread Open Media/fr/Main Page

2008-03-03T22:45:17Z

Acotte:

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2008-03-02T16:03:30Z

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2008-03-02T16:03:00Z

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2008-03-02T15:58:53Z

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2008-03-02T15:58:17Z

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2008-03-02T15:57:06Z

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2008-03-02T15:54:16Z

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Spread Open Media/en/Credits

2007-10-12T16:16:00Z

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Spread Open Media is brought to you by:
* Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves: Project manager
* [http://burobjorn.nl/ Bjorn Wijers]: Co-creator
* [http://superhumanoids.com/ Cameron Parkins]: Layout design
* Sebastian Kraft: Logo creator

Writers:
* Cameron Parkins
* Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves

Translators:
* Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves (pt)
* Shadowman (pl)
* Benoît Huron (fr)
* André Cotte (fr)

Hackers:
* Bjorn Wijers
* Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves

Banners by:
* Joshua Warren
* [http://mabrooks.com/ Michael A. Brooks]
* Sebastian Kraft

Special thanks to:
* [http://rejon.org Jon Phillips]

'''Spread Open Media is a project of the [http://xiph.org Xiph.Org Foundation]'''

Spread Open Media/fr/Thoughts on Open Format Obstacles

2007-09-25T21:17:07Z

Acotte:

== Réflexions sur les obstacles aux formats ouverts ==

Une discussion sur la "Xiph.org Advocacy Mailing List" à propos de l'absence de plugiciels pour Wordpress permettant de lire des formats ouverts m'a fait penser aux obstacles qui empêchent ces formats de devenir populaires.

Dans ce cas particulier nous étions à la recherche d'un bon plugiciel pour le carnet Web (blog) de SOM qui nous aurait permis d'inclure de la vidéo au format ''theora'' et de l'audio au format ''vorbis'' dans nos billets. Pour ce faire, il faut modifier un plugiciel existant de facon à ce qu'il accepte ces formats. C'est frustrant pour un usager de compétence moyenne (ce que je suis), qui connait les formats ouverts et leur importance, d'être incapable de les utiliser comme bon lui semble.

Heureusement, il y en a parmi nous qui savent très bien programmer. En ce qui me concerne, je connais très peu de choses sur le PHP, et de ce fait, je trouve intimidant l'idée de modifier du code, tout comme probablement la plupart des usagers de compétence moyenne.

La question qu'il faut se poser, c'est comment espérer que les formats ouverts prennent leur envol sans la possibilité pour les usagers ordinaires de les intégrer facilement dans leurs sites. Ceci met en évidence le rôle que '''SOM''' entend jouer - sortir les formats ouverts de l'ombre pour les rendre populaires. Un plugiciel qui supporte bien les formats theora et vorbis serait un ressource importante à offrir à la communauté des usagers de WordPress, et ce n'est qu'une des nombreuses façons d'amener les formats ouverts sur la place publique.

Il est primordial d'avoir l'usager moyen en tête. Pour vraiment répandre les médias ouverts, nous devons viser le plus bas dénominateur commun dans nos avancées technologiques. Sans cette attitude, les formats ouverts resteront l'apanage de petits groupes plutôt que d'être omniprésent.

''Traduit par André Cotte''

Spread Open Media/fr/Thoughts on Open Format Obstacles

2007-09-25T21:13:15Z

Acotte:

== Réflexions sur les obstacles aux formats ouverts ==

''La traduction du texte qui suit est à terminer''

Une discussion sur la "Xiph.org Advocacy Mailing List" à propos de l'absence de plugiciels pour Wordpress permettant de lire des formats ouverts m'a fait penser aux obstacles qui empêchent ces formats de devenir populaires.

Dans ce cas particulier nous étions à la recherche d'un bon plugiciel pour le carnet Web (blog) de SOM qui nous aurait permis d'inclure de la vidéo au format ''theora'' et de l'audio au format ''vorbis'' dans nos billets. Pour ce faire, il faut modifier un plugiciel existant de facon à ce qu'il accepte ces formats. C'est frustrant pour un usager de compétence moyenne (ce que je suis), qui connait les formats ouverts et leur importance, d'être incapable de les utiliser comme bon lui semble.

Heureusement, il y en a parmi nous qui savent très bien programmer. En ce qui me concerne, je connais très peu de choses sur le PHP, et de ce fait, je trouve intimidant l'idée de modifier du code, tout comme probablement la plupart des usagers de compétence moyenne.

La question qu'il faut se poser, c'est comment espérer que les formats ouverts prennent leur envol sans la possibilité pour les usagers ordinaires de les intégrer facilement dans leurs sites. Ceci met en évidence le rôle que '''SOM''' entend jouer - sortir les formats ouverts de l'ombre pour les rendre populaires. Un plugiciel qui supporte bien les formats theora et vorbis serait un ressource importante à offrir à la communauté des usagers de WordPress, et ce n'est qu'une des nombreuses façons d'amener les formats ouverts sur la place publique.

Keeping the average user in mind is very important. To truly spread open media, we have to always keep the lowest-common-denominator in the back of our mind in terms of technological prowess. Without that, Open Formats will potentially remain niche as opposed to ubiquitous.

''Traduction commencée par André Cotte''

Spread Open Media/fr/Thoughts on Open Format Obstacles

2007-09-25T21:05:39Z

Acotte:

== Réflexions sur les obstacles aux formats ouverts ==

''La traduction du texte qui suit est à terminer''

Une discussion sur la "Xiph.org Advocacy Mailing List" à propos de l'absence de plugiciels pour Wordpress permettant de lire des formats ouverts m'a fait penser aux obstacles qui empêchent ces formats de devenir populaires.

Dans ce cas particulier nous étions à la recherche d'un bon plugiciel pour le carnet Web (blog) de SOM qui nous aurait permis d'inclure de la vidéo au format ''theora'' et de l'audio au format ''vorbis'' dans nos billets. Pour ce faire, il faut modifier un plugiciel existant de facon à ce qu'il accepte ces formats. C'est frustrant pour un usager de compétence moyenne (ce que je suis), qui connait les formats ouverts et leur importance, d'être incapable de les utiliser comme bon lui semble.

Heureusement, il y en a parmi nous qui savent très bien programmer. En ce qui me concerne, je connais très peu de choses sur le PHP, et de ce fait, je trouve intimidant l'idée de modifier du code, tout comme probablement la plupart des usagers de compétence moyenne.

La question qu'il faut se poser, c'est comment espérer que les formats ouverts prennent leur envol sans la possibilité pour les les usagers ordinaires de les intégrer facilement dans leurs sites.
The question that arises is how do we expect Open Formats to take off without the ability for average and mid-level users to integrate these formats easily? Obviously this gets at a central issue that SOM will hope to solve — taking Open Formats from the more obscure to the more commonplace. A plugin that plays well with theora and vorbis is a great resource we can hopefully offer to the WP community, but that is only one of many ways we can move open formats into a more common area.

Keeping the average user in mind is very important. To truly spread open media, we have to always keep the lowest-common-denominator in the back of our mind in terms of technological prowess. Without that, Open Formats will potentially remain niche as opposed to ubiquitous.

''Traduction commencée par André Cotte''

Spread Open Media/fr/Thoughts on Open Format Obstacles

2007-09-25T20:44:21Z

Acotte:

== Réflexions sur les obstacles aux formats ouverts ==

''La traduction du texte qui suit est à terminer''

Une discussion sur la "Xiph.org Advocacy Mailing List" à propos de l'absence de plugiciels pour Wordpress permettant de lire des formats ouverts m'a fait penser aux obstacles qui empêchent ces formats de devenir populaires.

Dans ce cas particulier nous étions à la recherche d'un bon plugiciel pour le carnet Web (blog) de SOM qui nous aurait permis d'inclure de la vidéo au format ''theora'' et de l'audio au format ''vorbis'' dans nos billets. Pour ce faire, il faut modifier un plugiciel existant de facon à ce qu'il accepte ces formats. C'est frustrant pour un usager de compétence moyenne (ce que je suis), qui connait les formats ouverts et leur importance, d'être incapable de les utiliser comme bon lui semble.

Heureusement, il y en a parmi nous qui savent très bien programmer. En ce qui me concerne, je connais très peu de choses sur le PHP, et de ce fait, je trouve l'idée de modifier du code intimidante, tout comme la plupart des usagers de compétence moyenne.
Thankfully, there are those of us who understand code quite well. In my case, I know very little about PHP, and as such, find the idea of modifying actual code quite intimidating, as would probably many mid-level users.

The question that arises is how do we expect Open Formats to take off without the ability for average and mid-level users to integrate these formats easily? Obviously this gets at a central issue that SOM will hope to solve — taking Open Formats from the more obscure to the more commonplace. A plugin that plays well with theora and vorbis is a great resource we can hopefully offer to the WP community, but that is only one of many ways we can move open formats into a more common area.

Keeping the average user in mind is very important. To truly spread open media, we have to always keep the lowest-common-denominator in the back of our mind in terms of technological prowess. Without that, Open Formats will potentially remain niche as opposed to ubiquitous.

''Traduction commencée par André Cotte''

Spread Open Media/fr/Thoughts on Open Format Obstacles

2007-09-25T20:38:12Z

Acotte:

== Réflexions sur les obstacles aux formats ouverts ==

''La traduction du texte qui suit est à terminer''

Une discussion sur la "Xiph.org Advocacy Mailing List" à propos de l'absence de plugiciels pour Wordpress permettant de lire des formats ouverts m'a fait penser aux obstacles qui empêchent ces formats de devenir populaires.

Dans ce cas particulier nous étions à la recherche d'un bon plugiciel pour le carnet Web (blog) de SOM qui nous aurait permis d'inclure de la vidéo au format ''theora'' et de l'audio au format ''vorbis'' dans nos billets. Pour ce faire, il faut modifier un plugiciel existant de facon à ce qu'il accepte ces formats. C'est frustrant pour un usager de compétence moyenne (ce que je suis), qui connait les formats ouverts et leur importance, d'être incapable de les utiliser comme bon lui semble.

Thankfully, there are those of us who understand code quite well. In my case, I know very little about PHP, and as such, find the idea of modifying actual code quite intimidating, as would probably many mid-level users.

The question that arises is how do we expect Open Formats to take off without the ability for average and mid-level users to integrate these formats easily? Obviously this gets at a central issue that SOM will hope to solve — taking Open Formats from the more obscure to the more commonplace. A plugin that plays well with theora and vorbis is a great resource we can hopefully offer to the WP community, but that is only one of many ways we can move open formats into a more common area.

Keeping the average user in mind is very important. To truly spread open media, we have to always keep the lowest-common-denominator in the back of our mind in terms of technological prowess. Without that, Open Formats will potentially remain niche as opposed to ubiquitous.

''Traduction commencée par André Cotte''

Spread Open Media/fr/Thoughts on Open Format Obstacles

2007-09-20T03:02:58Z

Acotte:

== Réflexions sur les obstacles aux formats ouverts ==

''La traduction du texte qui suit est à terminer''

Une discussion sur la "Xiph.org Advocacy Mailing List" à propos de l'absence de plugiciels pour Wordpress permettant de lire des formats ouverts m'a fait penser aux obstacles qui empêchent ces formats de devenir populaires.

Dans ce cas particulier nous étions à la recherche d'un bon plugiciel pour le carnet Web (blog) de SOM qui nous aurait permis d'inclure de la vidéo au format theora et de l'audio au format vorbis dans nos billets. Pour ce faire, il faut modifier un plugiciel existant de facon à ce qu'il accepte ces formats. It is frustrating for a “mid-level” user (of which I consider myself), with knowledge of open formats and their importance, to be unable to implement using them.

Thankfully, there are those of us who understand code quite well. In my case, I know very little about PHP, and as such, find the idea of modifying actual code quite intimidating, as would probably many mid-level users.

The question that arises is how do we expect Open Formats to take off without the ability for average and mid-level users to integrate these formats easily? Obviously this gets at a central issue that SOM will hope to solve — taking Open Formats from the more obscure to the more commonplace. A plugin that plays well with theora and vorbis is a great resource we can hopefully offer to the WP community, but that is only one of many ways we can move open formats into a more common area.

Keeping the average user in mind is very important. To truly spread open media, we have to always keep the lowest-common-denominator in the back of our mind in terms of technological prowess. Without that, Open Formats will potentially remain niche as opposed to ubiquitous.

''Traduction commencée par André Cotte''

Spread Open Media/fr/Thoughts on Open Format Obstacles

2007-09-20T03:02:41Z

Acotte:

== Réflexions sur les obstacles aux formats ouverts ==

''La traduction du texte qui suit est à terminer''

Une discussion sur la "Xiph.org Advocacy Mailing List" à propos de l'absence de plugiciels pour Wordpress permettant de lire des formats ouverts m'a fait penser aux obstacles qui empêchent ces formats de devenir populaires.

Dans ce cas particulier nous étions à la recherche d'un bon plugiciel pour le carnet Web (blog) de SOM qui nous aurait permis d'inclure de la vidéo au format theora et de l'audio au format vorbis dans nos billets. Pour ce faire, il faut modifier un plugiciel existant de facon à ce qu'il accepte ces formats. It is frustrating for a “mid-level” user (of which I consider myself), with knowledge of open formats and their importance, to be unable to implement using them.

Thankfully, there are those of us who understand code quite well. In my case, I know very little about PHP, and as such, find the idea of modifying actual code quite intimidating, as would probably many mid-level users.

The question that arises is how do we expect Open Formats to take off without the ability for average and mid-level users to integrate these formats easily? Obviously this gets at a central issue that SOM will hope to solve — taking Open Formats from the more obscure to the more commonplace. A plugin that plays well with theora and vorbis is a great resource we can hopefully offer to the WP community, but that is only one of many ways we can move open formats into a more common area.

Keeping the average user in mind is very important. To truly spread open media, we have to always keep the lowest-common-denominator in the back of our mind in terms of technological prowess. Without that, Open Formats will potentially remain niche as opposed to ubiquitous.

''Traduction commencé par André Cotte''

Spread Open Media/fr/Thoughts on Open Format Obstacles

2007-09-20T03:02:07Z

Acotte:

== Réflexions sur les obstacles aux formats ouverts ==

''La traduction du texte qui suit est à terminer''

Une discussion sur la "Xiph.org Advocacy Mailing List" à propos de l'absence de plugiciels pour Wordpress permettant de lire des formats ouverts m'a fait penser aux obstacles qui empêchent ces formats de devenir populaires.

Dans ce cas particulier nous étions à la recherche d'un bon plugiciel pour le carnet Web (blog) de SOM qui nous aurait permis d'inclure de la vidéo au format theora et de l'audio au format vorbis dans nos billets. Pour ce faire, il faut modifier un plugiciel existant de facon à ce qu'il accepte ces formats. It is frustrating for a “mid-level” user (of which I consider myself), with knowledge of open formats and their importance, to be unable to implement using them.

Thankfully, there are those of us who understand code quite well. In my case, I know very little about PHP, and as such, find the idea of modifying actual code quite intimidating, as would probably many mid-level users.

The question that arises is how do we expect Open Formats to take off without the ability for average and mid-level users to integrate these formats easily? Obviously this gets at a central issue that SOM will hope to solve — taking Open Formats from the more obscure to the more commonplace. A plugin that plays well with theora and vorbis is a great resource we can hopefully offer to the WP community, but that is only one of many ways we can move open formats into a more common area.

Keeping the average user in mind is very important. To truly spread open media, we have to always keep the lowest-common-denominator in the back of our mind in terms of technological prowess. Without that, Open Formats will potentially remain niche as opposed to ubiquitous.

Spread Open Media/fr/Thoughts on Open Format Obstacles

2007-09-20T03:00:26Z

Acotte:

== Réflexions sur les obstacles aux formats ouverts ==
''
Le texte qui suit est à traduire''

Une discussion sur la "Xiph.org Advocacy Mailing List" à propos de l'absence de plugiciels pour Wordpress permettant de lire des formats ouverts m'a fait penser aux obstacles qui empêchent ces formats de devenir populaires.

Dans ce cas particulier nous étions à la recherche d'un bon plugiciel pour le carnet Web (blog) de SOM qui nous aurait permis d'inclure de la vidéo au format theora et de l'audio au format vorbis dans nos billets. Pour ce faire, il faut modifier un plugiciel existant de facon à ce qu'il accepte ces formats.

In this specific case, we were attempting to find a good plugin for the SOM blog that would allow us to embed theora video and vorbis audio in our posts. To do so meant modifying a pre-existing plugin so they can accept these formats. It is frustrating for a “mid-level” user (of which I consider myself), with knowledge of open formats and their importance, to be unable to implement using them.

Thankfully, there are those of us who understand code quite well. In my case, I know very little about PHP, and as such, find the idea of modifying actual code quite intimidating, as would probably many mid-level users.

The question that arises is how do we expect Open Formats to take off without the ability for average and mid-level users to integrate these formats easily? Obviously this gets at a central issue that SOM will hope to solve — taking Open Formats from the more obscure to the more commonplace. A plugin that plays well with theora and vorbis is a great resource we can hopefully offer to the WP community, but that is only one of many ways we can move open formats into a more common area.

Keeping the average user in mind is very important. To truly spread open media, we have to always keep the lowest-common-denominator in the back of our mind in terms of technological prowess. Without that, Open Formats will potentially remain niche as opposed to ubiquitous.

Spread Open Media/fr/Thoughts on Open Format Obstacles

2007-09-20T02:47:13Z

Acotte:

== Réflexions sur les obstacles aux formats ouverts ==

User talk:Saoshyant

2007-09-19T19:38:33Z

Acotte: OK, it's done

<div class="usermessage"><div class="plainlinks">Leave a '''[http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Saoshyant&action=edit&section=new new message]. Or if it's private, send an [[Special:Emailuser/Saoshyant| e-mail]].'''</div></div>

== French Translation ==

Hi! Ivo, I've started the translation of the template page you suggest to me. Do you think that we have to translate the title Spread Open Media in French. In so doing, we will loose the acronym SOM. For now I will let the title as is.

== OK, it's done ==

The Template:SOM is already translate in french.

Template:SOM en

2007-09-19T19:37:10Z

Acotte:

== Template:SOM fr ==

<div class="usermessage"><div class="plainlinks">
Cette page de wiki concerne le projet [[Spread Open Media]]. 
Vous pouvez l'éditer autant que vous voulez et, après approbation, elle se retrouvera sur le [http://spreadopenmedia.org site Web]. 
Si vous désirez traduire cette page dans votre langue maternelle, consultez les instructions [[Spread Open Media#How to translate SOM content|ici]]
</div></div>
<includeonly>[[Category:Spread Open Media/en]]</includeonly>

Template:SOM en

2007-09-19T19:32:34Z

Acotte:

<div class="usermessage"><div class="plainlinks">
Cette page de wiki concerne le projet [[Spread Open Media]]. 
Vous pouvez l'éditer autant que vous voulez et, après approbation, elle se retrouvera sur le [http://spreadopenmedia.org site Web]. 
If you would like to translate this page to your language, go [[Spread Open Media#How to translate SOM content|here]] for instructions.
</div></div>
<includeonly>[[Category:Spread Open Media/en]]</includeonly>

User talk:Saoshyant

2007-09-19T19:21:14Z

Acotte: French Translation

User:Acotte

2007-09-19T19:08:24Z

Acotte:

Acotte est le pseudo pour André Cotte.
Je suis conseiller en logiciels libres pour l'éducation à la Société GRICS. Un site, [http://zonelibre.grics.qc.ca Zone libre en éducation], est ma plateforme de travail.

Spread Open Media

2007-09-19T19:03:34Z

Acotte:

'''[http://spreadopenmedia.org/ Spread Open Media]''' (ou SOM) a pour but de faire la promotion des différents formats de la Xiph.Org Foundation. Vous pouvez nous aider à créer ou à modifier le contenu du site officiel en modifiant ce wiki.

== Pourquoi les formats multimédias ouverts sont importants ==
* You can use, modify, and distribute [[Wikipedia:Free software|Free]] software for open formats without needing permission from (or paying royalties to) [[Wikipedia:software patent|software patent]] holders.
* It has equal or better quality compared with formats that stuff DRM up your nose and get you sued in court.
* You can share media files across P2P and different operating systems, and it will work on those computers because the specification of the formats are open.
* No matter your needs, be it music, speech, video, playlists, or slideshows: open media will cover them.
* If you help spread the word, then you will see more support and compatibility in portable players, which will benefit everyone.
* You can buy music or videos online, and they won't be crippled with DRM.
* You can save your bandwidth in case you author podcasts or stream content, and those will have better quality than when using proprietary formats.
* The more people that use open media, the better formats you can expect in the future, so if you use open media you are making the world a little bit of a better place.

== Idea Map ==
*[[Spread Open Media Design|Design]]

== Roadmap ==

=== Milestone 0 ===

* (DONE) Get accounts to key developers
* (DONE) Fill out this wiki with information from our discussions and slides
* Explanation of what spread open media is and what not (in multiple languages?)
* Examples of best practices such as an interview I did with SJ Klein for the OLPC (Bjorn)
* Clear and concise description / definition for open media formats, until now I focussed on using Bruce Perens' Open Standards definition (Bjorn)

=== Milestone 1 ===

* blog 10 posts using the tags and standards setup (Cameron + Jon + Bjorn + Ivo)
* A nice looking theme for the website (keep multiple languages in mind?) (Cameron)
** Wordpress theme based on mockup by Ivo and Sebastian Kraft's pirate-smile logo (IVO)
* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release (cameron)

=== Milestone 2 ===

* Prepare initial promotional campaigns
* Tutorials about using / creating open media on multiple platforms
* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release (cameron)

=== Milestone 3 ===

* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release

=== Milestone 4 ===
* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release

== How to translate SOM content ==
This is easy. If you have a XiphWiki account (you may login through OpenID), go to the original page, say [[Spread Open Media/en/FAQ]] and replace "en" by whatever language you speak (e.g. nl for Dutch, pt for Portuguese, etc.)

If the link is Spread Open Media/en/It_is_a_nice_day, then it becomes Spread Open Media/fr/It_is_a_nice_day if you are translating to French. Then, at the top of the article, translate "It is a nice day" back to your language.

Don't forget to also sign at the end. Put a "Translated by " in your language so that you get appropriate credit.

You may also want to translate the [[Spread Open Media/en/Interface|site's interface]].

== See also ==
* [[Spread Open Media Content]] for an index of SOM content on XiphWiki
* [[Spread Open Media Contributions]] for a list of proposed additions to SOM

Spread Open Media

2007-09-19T19:01:06Z

Acotte:

'''[http://spreadopenmedia.org/ Spread Open Media/fr]''' (ou SOM) a pour but de faire la promotion des différents formats de la Xiph.Org Foundation. Vous pouvez aider en créant ou modifiant le contenu du site officiel You may help create or edit content in the official site by making edits in this wiki.

== Why Open Media Matters ==
* You can use, modify, and distribute [[Wikipedia:Free software|Free]] software for open formats without needing permission from (or paying royalties to) [[Wikipedia:software patent|software patent]] holders.
* It has equal or better quality compared with formats that stuff DRM up your nose and get you sued in court.
* You can share media files across P2P and different operating systems, and it will work on those computers because the specification of the formats are open.
* No matter your needs, be it music, speech, video, playlists, or slideshows: open media will cover them.
* If you help spread the word, then you will see more support and compatibility in portable players, which will benefit everyone.
* You can buy music or videos online, and they won't be crippled with DRM.
* You can save your bandwidth in case you author podcasts or stream content, and those will have better quality than when using proprietary formats.
* The more people that use open media, the better formats you can expect in the future, so if you use open media you are making the world a little bit of a better place.

== Idea Map ==
*[[Spread Open Media Design|Design]]

== Roadmap ==

=== Milestone 0 ===

* (DONE) Get accounts to key developers
* (DONE) Fill out this wiki with information from our discussions and slides
* Explanation of what spread open media is and what not (in multiple languages?)
* Examples of best practices such as an interview I did with SJ Klein for the OLPC (Bjorn)
* Clear and concise description / definition for open media formats, until now I focussed on using Bruce Perens' Open Standards definition (Bjorn)

=== Milestone 1 ===

* blog 10 posts using the tags and standards setup (Cameron + Jon + Bjorn + Ivo)
* A nice looking theme for the website (keep multiple languages in mind?) (Cameron)
** Wordpress theme based on mockup by Ivo and Sebastian Kraft's pirate-smile logo (IVO)
* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release (cameron)

=== Milestone 2 ===

* Prepare initial promotional campaigns
* Tutorials about using / creating open media on multiple platforms
* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release (cameron)

=== Milestone 3 ===

* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release

=== Milestone 4 ===
* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release

== How to translate SOM content ==
This is easy. If you have a XiphWiki account (you may login through OpenID), go to the original page, say [[Spread Open Media/en/FAQ]] and replace "en" by whatever language you speak (e.g. nl for Dutch, pt for Portuguese, etc.)

If the link is Spread Open Media/en/It_is_a_nice_day, then it becomes Spread Open Media/fr/It_is_a_nice_day if you are translating to French. Then, at the top of the article, translate "It is a nice day" back to your language.

Don't forget to also sign at the end. Put a "Translated by " in your language so that you get appropriate credit.

You may also want to translate the [[Spread Open Media/en/Interface|site's interface]].

== See also ==
* [[Spread Open Media Content]] for an index of SOM content on XiphWiki
* [[Spread Open Media Contributions]] for a list of proposed additions to SOM

Spread Open Media

2007-09-19T19:00:27Z

Acotte:

'''[http://spreadopenmedia.org/ Spread Open Media]''' (ou SOM) a pour but de faire la promotion des différents formats de la Xiph.Org Foundation. Vous pouvez aider en créant ou modifiant le contenu du site officiel You may help create or edit content in the official site by making edits in this wiki.

== Why Open Media Matters ==
* You can use, modify, and distribute [[Wikipedia:Free software|Free]] software for open formats without needing permission from (or paying royalties to) [[Wikipedia:software patent|software patent]] holders.
* It has equal or better quality compared with formats that stuff DRM up your nose and get you sued in court.
* You can share media files across P2P and different operating systems, and it will work on those computers because the specification of the formats are open.
* No matter your needs, be it music, speech, video, playlists, or slideshows: open media will cover them.
* If you help spread the word, then you will see more support and compatibility in portable players, which will benefit everyone.
* You can buy music or videos online, and they won't be crippled with DRM.
* You can save your bandwidth in case you author podcasts or stream content, and those will have better quality than when using proprietary formats.
* The more people that use open media, the better formats you can expect in the future, so if you use open media you are making the world a little bit of a better place.

== Idea Map ==
*[[Spread Open Media Design|Design]]

== Roadmap ==

=== Milestone 0 ===

* (DONE) Get accounts to key developers
* (DONE) Fill out this wiki with information from our discussions and slides
* Explanation of what spread open media is and what not (in multiple languages?)
* Examples of best practices such as an interview I did with SJ Klein for the OLPC (Bjorn)
* Clear and concise description / definition for open media formats, until now I focussed on using Bruce Perens' Open Standards definition (Bjorn)

=== Milestone 1 ===

* blog 10 posts using the tags and standards setup (Cameron + Jon + Bjorn + Ivo)
* A nice looking theme for the website (keep multiple languages in mind?) (Cameron)
** Wordpress theme based on mockup by Ivo and Sebastian Kraft's pirate-smile logo (IVO)
* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release (cameron)

=== Milestone 2 ===

* Prepare initial promotional campaigns
* Tutorials about using / creating open media on multiple platforms
* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release (cameron)

=== Milestone 3 ===

* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release

=== Milestone 4 ===
* When all accomplished, launch PR + news posting about this release

== How to translate SOM content ==
This is easy. If you have a XiphWiki account (you may login through OpenID), go to the original page, say [[Spread Open Media/en/FAQ]] and replace "en" by whatever language you speak (e.g. nl for Dutch, pt for Portuguese, etc.)

If the link is Spread Open Media/en/It_is_a_nice_day, then it becomes Spread Open Media/fr/It_is_a_nice_day if you are translating to French. Then, at the top of the article, translate "It is a nice day" back to your language.

Don't forget to also sign at the end. Put a "Translated by " in your language so that you get appropriate credit.

You may also want to translate the [[Spread Open Media/en/Interface|site's interface]].

== See also ==
* [[Spread Open Media Content]] for an index of SOM content on XiphWiki
* [[Spread Open Media Contributions]] for a list of proposed additions to SOM

Spread Open Media/fr/Why it’s so important to promote this iniative

2007-09-16T14:13:40Z

Acotte:

=Pourquoi il est si important de soutenir cette initiative=

Les formats Open Media existent pour une seule et simple raison : ils sont censés passer partout. En tant qu'utilisateur, nous traitons les système d'exploitation et les programmes comme des outils. Qu'ils soient libres ou propriétaires, nous les choisissons parce que nous aimons travailler avec eux, parce qu'ils nous rendent plus productifs. Si vous êtes prêt à payer une somme importante pour pouvoir utiliser Photoshop, faites-le. Si vous préférez un équivalent libre et gratuit, il y a le GIMP. Ce sont des outils. On peut discuter à l'infini sur les bons et mauvais côtés de tel ou tel outil mais, au bout du compte, c'est ce qu'ils sont : des outils. Si on n'est pas satisfait par un outil, on en prend un autre.

Alors, quel est le problème en ce qui concerne l'informatique ? Si chacun est libre de changer d'outil à n'importe quel moment, il n'y aucun problème, pas vrai ? C'est le moment où on se heurte très, très fort, au monde réel. Les logiciels travaillent avec des fichiers, des bits et des octets, qui stockent l'information dans l'ordinateur. Ces fichiers ne sont pas équivalents ; certains sont des images, d'autres des clips vidéo, d'autres encore des documents textes ou des feuilles de calculs. Quand on passe d'un outil à un autre, on court le risque de ne plus pouvoir travailler avec ses anciens fichiers si ceux-ci ne fonctionnent qu'avec l'ancien programme et que le nouveau, tellement mieux pourtant, ne peut les ouvrir.

L'avantage d'un format pouvant fonctionner avec l'un et l'autre programme est clair. Ces formats existent et sont relativement connus. Pourquoi alors est-ce que le problème persiste ? Pourquoi doit-on soutenir les formats Open Media ? C'est parce que pour ceux qui fabriquent les outils, les développeurs de logiciels, faire en sorte que leurs créations acceptent les format OM n'est pas une priorité. Et parce que leurs programmes ne fonctionnent pas avec les formats OM, les utilisateurs ignorent ou se méfient de ces derniers. C'est un cercle vicieux.
* Saviez-vous que beaucoup de bandes dessinées en ligne ne sont disponibles qu'en GIF, alors même que PNG est un bien meilleur format ?
* Saviez-vous que OpenOffice.org n'importe pas les SVG de façon satisfaisante ? Et qu'il n'importe pas du tout les formats Vorbis, Speex ou Theora ?
* Saviez-vous que Microsoft Office n'importe pas les formats OpenDocument ?
* Saviez-vous que Adobe Photoshop et Adobe Flash ne savent pas du tout manipuler les fichiers SVG ?
* Saviez-vous que les artistes qui publient leurs œuvres sous une licence Creative Commons le font généralement dans un format propriétaire ?
* Saviez-vous qu'il existe peu de logiciels de montage vidéo qui fonctionnent avec Theora, bien que ce soit le format vidéo standard pour le web ?

Ces exemples et beaucoup d'autres aident à comprendre pourquoi il est nécessaire d'attirer l'attention du public, des créateurs de contenu et des développeurs sur l'utilité et l'importance des formats Open Media. Pour faire en sorte que, quelque soit l'outil ou système auquel on a affaire – un téléphone portable, un ordinateur portable, un Media Center ou même un frigo – on puisse échanger et ouvrir les fichiers des uns et des autres.

Cet article est une simplification des raisons pour lesquelles les formats Open Media sont importants. Nous ne voulons pas paraître condescendants. Notre but est de faire comprendre au plus grand nombre de gens possible, même à votre grand-mère, qu'il y a encore beaucoup d'obstacles à surmonter avant que l'ère numérique tienne toutes ses promesses.

Traduit par Benoît Huron.

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Spread Open Media/en/Why it’s so important to promote this iniative

2007-09-06T18:17:08Z

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Open Media formats exist for one reason only: they are supposed to work everywhere. There are proprietary and free operating systems out there, and their programs may be proprietary or free too. You, as a user, choose the one you like, the one that works for you, because software is a tool. If you want to pay the expensive tag price of Photoshop, by all means do so. You want a free alternative, then you get the GIMP. They are tools. You will see people whine about the good and bad sides of this and that tool, but when it comes to it, they are tools. If you aren’t happy with your tool, you get a new one.

So, what is the problem in the computer world? If anyone can go and grab a new tool anytime, then there’s no problems, right? That’s when reality beats us with a large troll club. Software deals with files, those little bits and bytes that store information on your computer. Those files are not all equal; some are images, some are video clips, some are office documents. When you switch from one tool to another, you risk not being able to work anymore with your older files, because they work only under the tool you were using, and your new shiny tool, in spite of being so cool, can’t open them.

What if there was a format that would work under both programs? Chances are you already know there are such formats, so why does the problem remain? Why does Open Media formats need to be promoted? Because the tool makers, the software developers, don’t deem it as a priority to make their creations work with OM formats. And because the programs don’t work with OM formats, the users aren’t aware of them or have grown a distaste towards them. It’s an egg and chicken problem.

* Did you know that many webcomics are only available under GIF, even though PNG is a much better format?
* Did you know that OpenOffice.org doesn’t import SVG properly? Nor does it import Vorbis, Speex, or Theora at all?
* Did you know that Microsoft Office does not import OpenDocument?
* Did you know that Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Flash have no idea what to do with a SVG file?
* Did you know that artists that release their works under a Creative Commons license do it usually under a proprietary format?
* Did you know that there aren’t many video editors that work with Theora, in spite of it being the standard for video on the Web?
* Did you know that under Linux, it's often impossible to have access to multimedia content under proprietary format?

These and many others are examples of why you need to get the word out, why it’s important to raise awareness of Open Media formats. Not only because of the general public, but because of the content creators and the software developers. So that whatever tool you use on whatever system you are dealing with, be it a mobile phone, a laptop, a media center, or even your fridge, they will all be able to open each others files.

This article is a simplification of why Open Media formats are so important. We don’t intend to patronize anyone, but our aim here is to reach everyone — even your aunt Gertrude — and make them understand that there are many obstacles to make the digital era a better place.