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Spread Open Media/en/Why Open Media Matters

2008-08-22T04:10:48Z

Shii:

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==Compare it to the popular formats==
* Free formats have the same or better quality compared with proprietary ones like MP3 or Flash.
* No matter your needs, be it music, speech, video, playlists, or slideshows: open media will cover them.
* You can save your bandwidth in case you author podcasts or stream content, and those will have better quality than when using proprietary formats.
==Choose it over the popular formats==
* You can use, modify, and distribute free software for open formats without needing permission from (or paying royalties to) software patent holders.
* The license on open formats cannot be changed or revoked. No matter what happens, you will still be in control of your own content.
* Similarly, the art and music you purchase, own, or download can be stored in open formats without any worries over future intellectual property restrictions.
* Whenever you buy music or videos online with open media, you will know they won't be crippled with DRM. You can share these files with friends or over peer-to-peer networks.
* You can share media files across different operating systems and architectures, and it will work on those computers because the specification of the formats are open.
==Tell your friends==
* If you help spread the word, then you will see more support and compatibility in portable players, which will benefit everyone.
* 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.

Spread Open Media/en/Why Open Media Matters

2008-08-22T04:10:41Z

Shii:

{{SOM_en}}
==Compare it to the popular formats==
* Free formats have the same or better quality compared with proprietary ones like MP3 or Flash.
* No matter your needs, be it music, speech, video, playlists, or slideshows: open media will cover them.
* You can save your bandwidth in case you author podcasts or stream content, and those will have better quality than when using proprietary formats.
==Choose it over the popular formats==
* You can use, modify, and distribute free software for open formats without needing permission from (or paying royalties to) software patent holders.
* The license on open formats cannot be changed or revoked. No matter what happens, you will still be in control of your own content.
* Similarly, the art and music you purchase, own, or download can be stored in open formats without any worries over future intellectual property restrictions.
* Whenever you buy music or videos online with open media, you will know they won't be crippled with DRM. You can share these files with friends or over peer-to-peer networks
* You can share media files across different operating systems and architectures, and it will work on those computers because the specification of the formats are open.
==Tell your friends==
* If you help spread the word, then you will see more support and compatibility in portable players, which will benefit everyone.
* 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.

Spread Open Media/en/Why Open Media Matters

2008-08-22T04:09:48Z

Shii:

{{SOM_en}}
==Compare it to the popular formats==
* Free formats have the same or better quality compared with proprietary ones like MP3 or Flash.
* 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.
* You can save your bandwidth in case you author podcasts or stream content, and those will have better quality than when using proprietary formats.
==Choose it over the popular formats==
* You can use, modify, and distribute free software for open formats without needing permission from (or paying royalties to) software patent holders.
* The license on open formats cannot be changed or revoked. No matter what happens, you will still be in control of your own content.
* Similarly, the art and music you purchase, own, or download can be stored in open formats without any worries over future intellectual property restrictions.
* Whenever you buy music or videos online with open media, you will know they won't be crippled with DRM.
==Tell your friends==
* If you help spread the word, then you will see more support and compatibility in portable players, which will benefit everyone.
* 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.

List of Theora videos

2008-08-22T04:04:58Z

Shii: link to official torrent

This is a list of sites where you can download videos encoded with [[Theora]].

;[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RenderingProject/aiglx AIGLX]:Demonstration videos for AIGLX, a project that aims to enable GL-accelerated effects on a standard desktop.
;[http://davefilms.com DaveFilms.US]: Audio books is Ogg Vorbis and Videos in Ogg Theroa
;[http://v2v.cc/ V2V]:Video syndication network
;[http://metavid.org Metavid]:Ogg theroa archive of U.S House and Senate Floor Footage.
;[http://punkcast.com/905/ PUNKCAST#905 Richard M Stallman]:Two video clips: ''What's GNU?'' + ''St. IGNUcius''
;[http://gplv3.fsf.org/av GPLv3 Conference, January 16-17 2006]:Speeches by Peter Brown, Eben Moglen and Richard Stallman.
;[http://www.polycrystal.org/lego/movies.html Lego Movies]:Two short movies: ''A New Computer'' and ''Swim''.
;[http://www.flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com/Website/films.html More Lego Movies]: Submissions from a Theora-only animation contest.
;[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/audio/audio.html Speeches about the GNU Project's philosophy]:Featuring Richard Stallman et al.
;[http://www.redhat.com/solutions/info/videos/ Red Hat Videos]:Videos about the GNU/Linux vendor's customers and solutions.
;[http://free-electrons.com/community/videos/conferences/en Free Electrons Conferences]: technical talks given at conferences about free software.
;[http://ulm.ccc.de/ChaosSeminar Ulm CCC Chaosseminar]: (german)
;[http://blip.tv/search?q=ogg Blip.tv]: Video sharing. Allow upload (and download) of ''Ogg Theora'' files.
;[http://www.visonair.tv/ Visonair.tv]: Open Access Internet TV channel streaming in ''Ogg Theora''
;[http://tvmallorca.net/pages/tv_online TV Mallorca]: TV Mallora (spanish) is providing an Ogg Theora stream.
;[http://intanto.org/cgi-bin/lala.sh?video 11200 Undo]: A short movie about computer, religion, sex, glue and so on...
;[http://commons.wikimedia.org/ Wikimedia Commons]: An archive database of 644,951 media files, to which anyone can contribute
;[http://www.archive.org/details/VoyagetothePlanetofPrehistoricWomen Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women] (1967) and [http://www.archive.org/details/TheSnowCreature The Snow Creature] (1954): Full-length public domain movies from the Internet Archive's [http://www.archive.org/details/feature_films collection].
;[http://video.indypgh.org Rustbelt TV]: [http://pittsburgh.indypgh.org Pittsburgh Indymedia's] TV program based on [http://radio.indypgh.org Rustbelt Radio] (audio available as ogg vorbis).
;[http://www.internautas.tv/ INTERNAUTAS TELEVÍSION]: Spanish website with clips from Andaluzian tv station. Content licensed under CC-BY-NC. So far, it provides decent resolutions.
;[http://theorasea.org/ Theora Sea]: Directory of online and free videos using [http://menguy.aymeric.free.fr/theora/ ITheora].
;[http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ Big Buck Bunny]: An open content short animated film by the Blender Institute. Also known as by the project codename, Peach. Available in 720p and smaller sizes.
;[http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu Screencasts] and [http://videos.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu Videos]: Video tutorials and graphical demonstrations on how to use the Ubuntu operating system.
;[http://www.deepvision.ca/tech_example4.php Deep Vision]: Technical demonstrations of the features of Deep Vision's ''Machine Perception''.
;[http://dot.kde.org/1213190021/ KDE Day]: Video recordings of technical talks at a conference commemorating the release of KDE 4, in Toulouse, France.
;[http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/1461E04FC8D3293FCC2574A500173A09 Computerworld]: Recording of a speech on copyright, at Auckland University, New Zealand.
;[http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts Pragmatic Programmer]: Technical tutorial screencasts for sale. Some screencasts and screencast previews are available in ''Ogg Vorbis'' format.
;[http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/okvideo/ogg-videos/ Engage Media]: A video sharing site focusing on social justice and environmental issues in South East Asia.

== See also==
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[[Category:Theora]]

Spread Open Media/en/Why Open Media Matters

2007-09-06T00:53:53Z

Shii: cute, but doesn't belong on serious blog

{{SOM_en}}

* 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 make your own radio or TV station without paying for expensive MPEG licenses, and you won’t get thrown into pantent hell where anyone may sue you.
* 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.
* It’s one of those little things that make you feel happier.