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[Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag 02 Januar 2011, um 00:41:22 schrieb Yorvyk:
> Interesting idea raised by now3d in IRC
> 
> Hi there.  Could I ask if you would consider switching the Adobe Flash
> videos to be in the Ogg Theora format and use <video> tag? I looked at
> http://lubuntu.net/ but all the videos wouldn't play from Firefox on
> Ubuntu.
> 
> Not sure how much work this would entail.
> Unfortunately my line kept dropping and I didn't get to talk about them not
> playing in FF.

The newer ones should run fine in Chromium with chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra 
installed. The older ones are unfortunately only avaiable as flv files. 
The new videos from 2011 will be encoded in webm (which should be playable in 
every browser [FF 4.0 is needed]) + h264 (m4v as blip.tv now converts 
automatically to it). As for the video tag. As far as I know chromium is 
loading and caching those videos when you add them with the video tag. That 
would produce high traffic on the server. (blip.tv in that case) So a link to 
the file would be better I think. Clicking the link should then open up the 
video in the internal browser video player.