List of Theora videos: Difference between revisions

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

Serial and Episodic

Geek Entertainment TV: A weekly video-cast covering technology topics, in an interview format. Many Ogg Theora format videos in the 2007 and prior archives.
ElectroVid: Learn basic electronics from a electrical engineering student attending University of York.
Iternautas Television: Spanish website with clips from the Andaluzian station. Content licensed under CC-BY-NC.
High Density: A show about technology and politics, with a focus on simple explanations for interesting innovations. Hosted by Ramon Cahenzli and Shane Coughlan.
Linux Action Show: Video broadcast of the Linux Action Show during live recording. Audio podcasts are vorbis-encoded.
Linux Journal: Linux related tips and tricks, in-depth tutorials, product reviews, and insights.
Metavid: Archive of the House of Representatives and Senate (USA) floor footage.
No Fat Clips!!!: Short films, music videos, hip commercials, and other kinds of short visual entertainment. Updated daily. (English and Italian language)
Rustbelt TV: Pittsburgh Indymedia's TV program based on Rustbelt Radio (audio available as ogg vorbis).
RyanIsHungry: Features the stories of individuals hacking everyday life, with environmental sustainability.
thebroken: Four technology episodes, from 2003 to 2006, that look at the computer hacker mentality.
the_source: A video show providing news, reviews, and general discussion about open source initiatives, since 2006.
Uncensored Interview: Thousands of musician interviews available under a creative commons license and as a Theora-encoded file. Look for the "Download Clip" link above the embedded Flash Player on many of the webpages.
WFTL Bytes: An "occasiodaily" FOSS and Linux News Show. Theora-formatted since October 2008.

Video Sharing Services

Blip.tv: A video sharing website which allows the upload and the download of Ogg Theora files.
Dailymotion OLPC Group: A dedicated space to save the videos created by XO users.
Engage Media: A video sharing website which focuses on social justice and environmental issues in South East Asia.
Theora Sea: A directory of online and free videos using ITheora.
TinyVid: An experimental Ogg video uploading site, which exists to test out usage of the HTML 5 video and audio elements with the Ogg codecs. You'll need a web browser that can playback Ogg media using video and audio tags, to display this video media.
V2V: A video syndication network which uses only open source software, in order to provide free and equal access to the video source.
Wikimedia Commons: An archive database of more than 4'000'000 media files (over 2500 of them are video), to which anyone can contribute.

Note: A list of video sharing websites which support the upload of Ogg files can be found on Wikipedia, all of them however will force-convert all incoming videos into a "flash" format, thus apply a "free and lossy into proprietary and lossy" conversion. The page doesn't contain any information about video services allowing to host files in OGG format.

Short Films

11200 Undo: A short movie about computer, religion, sex, glue and so on...
Big Buck Bunny (2008): An open content, short animated film by the Blender Institute. Also known as by the project codename, Peach. Available in 720p and smaller sizes.
Elephants Dream (2006): An open content, short animated film by the Blender Institute. Also known as by the project codename, Orange. More about the project...
Internet Archive: Thousands of digital movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every genre.
Lego Movies: Two short movies: A New Computer and Swim.
More Lego Movies: Submissions from an animation contest. Also available as HTML-5 video tag elements on a separate page.
Shock Doctrine: A short film by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein, directed by Jonás Cuarón.
Sita Sings the Blues (2009): Acclaimed, animated film by Nina Paley.
Steal This Film 2 (2007): Video archive of the numerous interviews used, and not used, in the documentary.
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1967) and The Snow Creature (1954): Full-length public domain movies from the Internet Archive's collection.

Scientific Demonstrations

1696 Lightnings: Visual and audible demonstration of a lightning storm in Montreal.
Deep Vision: Technical demonstrations of the features of Deep Vision's Machine Perception.
Rethaw: Conceptual resonance with ice, by David Steinberg.
SysBlog: Two videos on computer graphic engines: fijuu2 and q3apd.

Streaming Media

Editing Archive TV: Streams unlicensed Japanese anime, amateur machinima films, and video game captures.
NestBox: Science project that provides a live view of a bird nestbox.
Rare Music Live: Rare international contemporary indie rock music videos. (Russian language)
Theora Livestream: from Vienna based community TV station Okto
Transmisje Sejmiku Województwa Łódzkiego: A live broadcast of the Sejmik of the Łódź Voivodship in Poland (regional parliament). (available only when meetings take place, in polish)
TV Mallorca: Streams the Mallorca television station content through streaming online. (Spanish language)
VagueTV: A spring-off project from Radio Vague, and distributed under the GNU Free Document License.
Visonair.tv: Provides video producers open-access to online media streaming, in a format stylized after a television channel.
WebTV: Télévision libre - Contenu Libre. (French language)

GNU/Linux Philosophical

Computerworld: Recording of a speech on copyright, at Auckland University, New Zealand.
Creative Commons: Informational videos about Creative Commons, a charitable corporation which promotes alternative copyright licenses.
Free Electrons Conferences: Technical talks given at conferences about free software.
Freedom Fry: Short film celebrating the 25th anniversary of the GNU operating system, starting Stephen Fry, entitled Happy birthday to GNU.
GNU and FSF Audio and Video Repository: Collection of audio and video content, primarily speeches on Free Software.
GPLv3 Conference, January 16-17 2006: Speeches by Peter Brown, Eben Moglen and Richard Stallman.
InitMarketing.tv: Open source software marketing videos.
GNU Project's Philosophy Speeches: Featuring Richard Stallman and others.
PUNKCAST#905: Two speeches by Richard Stallman: What's GNU? and St. IGNUcius.
Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Journal: Several lecture videos including the 2008 Symposium.
Utah Open Source Conference 2008: Week-long conference to discuss Novell, GNOME, and other topics related to the open source community in the state of Utah of USA.

GNU/Linux Technical

Debian Videos: the annual Debian developers meeting, an event filled with discussions and workshops.
AIGLX: Demonstration videos for AIGLX, a project that aims to enable GL-accelerated effects on a standard desktop.
Community foo: A speech by Dimitris Glezos, from the Fedora Project, at FOSSComm 2008. (Greek language)
Dell Linux Engineering Vlogs: Recordings of interviews from Dell's Linux team, from 2006.
Fedora 9: Video demonstration of Resizing feature in Fedora 9. (Hebrew language)
FOSDEM Speeches: Video recordings of Free and Open Source developer talks held at FOSDEM editions from 2005 and onward.
KDE Day: Video recordings of technical talks at a conference commemorating the release of KDE 4, in Toulouse, France.
Linux Gaming World: Website focusing on commercial GNU/Linux games, with many video trailers in Ogg Theora format.
MacSlow Blog: A few videos demonstrating GUI elements, linked from a developer's blog.
Novell Brainshare: The three keynote speeches which were presented at Novell's Brainshare, in 2006.
Omphaloskeptical: Blog about GStreamer and Elisa with many screencast tutorials.
Open Source TV: A collection of open source related videos.
Open Source Video: Presentation and lecture notes on video editing and publication using open source tools and Ogg Theora video.
Open Source World Conference: Video recordings of technical talks, held October 2008. (Spanish language)
Red Hat Videos: Videos about the GNU/Linux vendor's customers and solutions.
Rusty's: Video demonstration of libantithread 0.1, on Rusty's Bleeding Edge Page.
tube.openSUSE.org: The official repository of videos by the openSUSE people, such as software developer interviews, instructional screencasts, and conference speeches.
Twisted Lincoln: Two instructional videos on the use of the GNU/Linux operating system.
Ubuntu Screencasts and Ubuntu Videos: Video tutorials and graphical demonstrations on how to use the Ubuntu operating system.
VirtualBox Demonstration: The ERACC Web Log discusses running the Windows 98 operating system with VirtualBox.
Yo Frankie!: A technology demonstration of an open source, 3D video game, created by the Blender Institute. Code named Apricot.

Web/Internet Technical

Annodex: Combination of Theora video examples, from Open Source Forum 2005 and other events. Annodex applies open standards in annotating and indexing networked media. Software, produced by Annodex, is used by Wikipedia to host Theora media online.
BBC Backstage Blog: George Wright responds to Backstage questions in a video available in Theora format. Also in the brand new, BBC-produced Dirac video codec format!
BBC R&DTV: A pilot project made up of interviews from knowledgeable BBC developers, BBC project experts and external experts from around the world, which includes uncut footage under a creative commons non-commercial attribution v2 license.
Cortado Demonstration: A Java applet by GStreamer that can stream Ogg Theora files, so video media can be embedded into webpages. This site also provides instructions on using the applet.
Drupalcon 2008: Recordings of conference speeches in Ogg Theora format. Drupal is an website framework and Free Software.
Envy Casts: Tutorials available for download in Ogg Theora after purchase. Instructor led training for Ruby on Rails computer programming.
Firefox 3 Screencast: Firefox 3 screenshot and advertising video
Firefox and Opera HTML5 Tests: Implementation examples of the HTML "video tag", using Theora video formats.
HTML5 Demonstration: Anne van Kesteren's Fronteers HTML 5 presentation which has video tags embedded in the presentation itself.
Naill Kennedy Blog: Web journal that explores how syndication and new business are changing life on the web, including insight into video technologies. Presentations are encoded into Theora format.
PeepCode Screencasts: Hour-long instruction videos that teach Ruby on Rails website development.
Realeyes Demonstration: A GPL-licensed C library of functions that maintain state information and analysis results about streams of data. These instructional videos walkthrough a network Intrusion Detection System application, based on this library.
Thunderbird Presentations: University students presenting information about their experiences within the Thunderbird project. Thunderbird is an open source email client, for desktop computers.
Timeline Widget: A visual introduction to a simple web widget, which illustrates scaling, zooming, and panning.
Transparency Camp: Interviews with keynote speakers at the 2009 Transparency Camp conference. The conference addressed using computer technology for a more open and accountable governance.
WebJam 3: Short video highlight of the WebJam 3, held in 2007. Media is free of copyright restrictions (public domain).

Uncatergorized videos

25C3 Recordings: Computer-security conference speeches.
Battle of Wesnoth Trailer: The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy computer game with a fantasy theme. Video licensed under GNU Free Documentation License.
Lawrence Lessig Videos: Video recordings of speeches and presentations given by Lawrence Lessig on such topics as copyright fair use and the Creative Commons License. Various media formats, including Theora-encoded.
Open Government Petition: Lawrence Lessig and the Mozilla Foundation have created an online petition for a technologically open (USA) federal government. The video on the web site is in three formats, including Theora.
Public Access Digital Media Archive: Online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and not finished films. The entire collection is searchable and viewable online, and is free to download for non- commercial use.
Pragmatic Programmer: Technical tutorial screencasts for sale. Some screencasts and screencast previews are available in Ogg Vorbis format, including The Ruby Object Model and Metaprogramming, Erlang by Example, and Everyday Active Record.
Ulm CCC Chaosseminar: Computer-security conference speeches. (German language)

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-;[http://www.linux.com/ Linux.com]: All videos, after late-2007, are in ''Ogg Theora'' format.  There is an RSS feed available to be alerted to new videos, as they become available.
 ;[http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/?cat=4 Linux Action Show]: Video broadcast of the Linux Action Show during live recording.  Audio podcasts are vorbis-encoded.
 ;[http://www.linuxjournal.com/video Linux Journal]: Linux related tips and tricks, in-depth tutorials, product reviews, and insights.