Re: [Koha-devel] KohaCon (may 2nd & 3rd) notes & questions

[Russel Garlick]

Hi

> Please can we use Ogg Theora?

This would be a great idea. But the infrastructure on offer does not 
support this. If someone is happy to host content in this format, please 
let me know.

What we have been offered at the moment is space on 2 Windows MMS servers.

From my brief google, it seems that Windows MMS does not support Theora 
- If anyone can find something that says it does, please let me know.

So in order to put streaming video up in Ogg Theora format, we would 
need someone to set up something like an IceCast server - 
http://www.icecast.org/ (which could be interesting).

Katipo doesn't have any time to do this at the moment, but if someone 
wants to (perhaps you MJ??) then awesome. We could put the content up in 
both formats.

My plan is to put the content up on the mms servers regardless. I have 
clients who only have Windows Media Player . From what I can see you 
need Winamp or some other 3rd party player (on Win) to play Ogg formats, 
which my clients are not allowed to install due their organisations 
"Common Desktop Environment" Policies. I don't want to exclude these 
people who are working on supporting open source in these environments. 
 The reason I have offered space on the account we pay for is so I can 
reach my clients.

> I don't have a tv capture card,
> but I will try to get one if no-one else has one. Let me know.
>

kolibrie's suggestion about capturing the video is ideally how I'd do 
it, but it will depend on video gear we have on the day.

I *have* a video capture card that I am bringing with me, so that if 
camera on the day doesn't support firewire or usb we won't be sunk.

> Hope that helps,

What would really be helpful is if you were to offer somewhere to host 
the files in the Ogg Theora format and pay for the bandwidth. This 
request goes out to anyone really - I am more than happy to do the 
conversions and send them through to someone to host. Any offers?

Cheers
Russel


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