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[Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent News :)

Regards,

Phill.

On 3 January 2011 12:48, Leszek Lesner <leszek.lesner@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Am Montag 03 Januar 2011, um 04:13:56 schrieb Mario Behling:
> > Hi Phil,
> >
> > would be great if you could host the videos on your server and if we
> > could embed them somehow in the lubuntu site. Unfortunately the videos
> > are currently with car advertisements when I view them. I already had
> > some discussions with Leszek about this as blip also offers adsfree
> > videos. It might be a solution if you host the videos, so we can offer
> > adfree videos. I am not totally against advertising, if it is for a
> > dedicated purpose. Particularly though, I find forced advertising
> > before a video pretty annoying. Just reminds me of boring TV times.
> >
>
> Btw. the videos are now linked directly from the lubuntu.net site. So
> there
> shouldn't be ads anymore.
>
> > Ciao,
> >
> > Mario
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > Hiyas leszek,
> > > hopefully by the end of January I will have the ubuntu server installed
> > > on my friends dedicated server. If traffic on blip.tv is an issue,
> then
> > > I will transfer them over to the new server. I'm also sure that I have
> > > video conversion program on piglet if flv is causing people problems.
> > > Regards,
> > > Phill.
> > >
> > > On 2 January 2011 15:29, Steve <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:43:54 -0000, Leszek Lesner <
> leszek.lesner@xxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>> 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.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks for the info Leszek.  I just download and play the in Lifrea or
> > >> Opera and haven't had any problems.  I don't know what the problem in
> FF
> > >> is (codec missing?) as they work for.
> > >>
> > >> Once again thank you for making these screen-casts, as they are very
> > >> useful.
> > >>
> > >> Happy New Year to you.:)
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Steve (Yorvyk)
> > >> http://lubuntu.net
> > >>
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