Free open source video report

Thanks to the people of EngageMedia there is now a report on Free Open Source Software codecs for online video(pdf 23MB) .

I haven’t read it back to back yet but it’s definately an interesting and necessary read for all of us advacating for more open media formats.

Thanks Andrew !

Testing ogg support in Anarchy Media Player

Yesterday evening I had some time to slack and I decided to implement Vorbis and Theora into the Anarchy Media Player. This is a fairly wellknown WordPress plugi for displaying media files, but it can also be used without WordPress. I used the Cortado applet made available by the Fluendo people which should allow direct playback in the browser (at least if the person accessing the content has Java installed) otherwise you should see a download link. So it degrades pretty nice. (more…)