[cc-community] Creative Commons: Fundraising Through Viral Video Sharing

Alex Roberts alex at creativecommons.org
Mon Nov 20 17:25:13 EST 2006


Theora version now up on the videos page (ubuntu's ffmpeg isn't built
with AAC support, compiling my own fixed that.)


On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 08:58 -0800, Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> I haven't been able to convert "Mix Tape" with audio for some reason
> (ffmpeg2theora says there's an audio stream there, but won't output it).
> I will try again, using audio and video capture if necessary.  I see
> that you cc'd a couple mailing lists.  If anyone has advice on this
> matter please do tell.
> 
> The last two videos on the page have always been available as MPEG-1,
> which I assumed is free, as there are mpeg1 players in Debian main and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1 doesn't mention patents, unlike
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-2#Patent_holders
> 
> I may be wrong about the freeness of MPEG-1 and will convert the videos
> to Ogg Theora in either case.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:25 -0500, Matt Lee wrote:
> > Mike,
> > 
> > I notice most videos are now up in Ogg Theora format, however I notice there
> > are also a few that are still not done.
> > 
> > Can you give me an idea of when these will be available? 
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> > matt
> > 



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