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From: | Thomas Lord |
Subject: | Re: visualization of CVS commits |
Date: | Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:26:36 -0700 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) |
I don't know if anyone would volunteer to do the work or how RMS would feel about the idea but: Perhaps a sweet goal would be to put together a vid with a few seconds of some stock footage of RMS talking about key points, some title screens or captions linking to ogg formats and other FSF-related video, and (if possible) use free software tools to prepare a video that "youtube" can handle (which would be a flash/gnash vid). Most people who view it via youtube will be using non-free software and the problematic flash format but it would still be a bit subversive in that the links would still lead *some* to explore GNU and ogg and, such a posting would head off much of the impulse of people who don't care about software freedom per se to put it on youtube. -t James Cloos wrote: "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:David> One problem that I see with Ogg Theora that it is intended, as David> far as I know, for real-life movies. Just like JPEGS are rather David> unsuitable for screen shots when compared to well-made PNGs.... The Beeb's Dirac might handle cartoon-style animation better than Theora, also uses the Ogg container format and is Free. Their implementation, schroedinger, is also Free Software. I believe Xiph has chosen to promote Dirac rather than continuing work on the wavelet codec they were planning on writing (Tarkin?). Xiph also has a spec for MNG in an Ogg container, which primarily is useful for combining audio -- such as Vorbis -- with the MNG. That would certainly give sharp output for cartoonish bitmaps. I'm not aware of a good choice yet for moving vector art, though. Synfig's format might qualify, but don't believe there is a player for it other than the editor itself. -JimC |
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